Hermine Kallista Kann (February 28, 1895 – March 23, 1983) was an Estonian linguist and teacher.
In 1913, she graduated from Tartu Pushkin High School for Girls, and she attended the university program for women in Kharkiv from 1916 to 1918.
From 1927 to 1932, she studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Tartu, graduating cum laude in 1932.
[2] In 1937, she defended her master's thesis La Place de l'Adjectif dans 'Erec et Enide' et 'Cligés' par Chrétien de Troyes (The Position of the Adjective in Érec et Énide and Cligès by Chrétien de Troyes)[3][4] at the University of Tartu and received a master's degree (recognized in 1946 as a doctoral degree in philology).
From 1927 to 1935, during her university studies, she was the secretary of the French Research Institute of Tartu.