Olevik
{{Short description|Weekly newspaper in Estonia (1882–1915)}}
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| type = Weekly newspaper
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| owners = Ado Grenzstein
| founder = Ado Grenzstein
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| chiefeditor = Ado Grenzstein
| foundation = 1882
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| language = Estonian
| ceased publication = 1915
| headquarters = Tartu
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| publishing_country = Estonia
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Olevik (Estonian: Present Time) was a weekly newspaper published in Tartu, Estonia. The paper existed between 1882 and 1915.
History and profile
Olevik was established in 1882.{{cite web|author=Mart Laar|title=Oleviku esimene tegevusaasta
|url=http://www.kirj.ee/public/va-acta/s01-aja.htm|work=Acta Historica Tallinnensia|access-date=1 January 2015|format=Conference paper|date=2001}} The paper was owned and edited by Ado Grenzstein.{{cite journal|author=Aile Möldre|title=The Popularisation of Book History in Estonian Textbooks and Periodical Press (19th century–1917)|journal=Knygotyra|date=2013|volume=60|doi=10.15388/kn.v60i0.1366
|volume=1|issue=9|url=http://www.ies.ee/iesp/No9/articles/23_Vihma.pdf}} It was published weekly in Tartu.{{cite book|title=The Struggle for Female Suffrage in Europe: Voting to Become Citizens|page=117
|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zR4yAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA117|year=2012|publisher=BRILL|isbn=978-90-04-22991-4
|editor1=Blanca Rodriguez Ruiz|editor2=Ruth Rubio Marin|location=Leiden; Boston, MA|chapter=Suffrage and the Nation: Women's Vote in Estonia|author1=Helen Biin|author2=Anneli Albi}}{{cite book|author1=Marju Lauristin
|author2=Peeter Vihalemm|editor1=Marju Lauristin|editor2=Peeter Vihalemm|title=Reading in changing society|date=2014
|publisher=University of Tartu Press|location=Tartu|chapter=Introduction|isbn=978-9949325757
|url=http://www.tyk.ee/admin/upload/files/raamatud/1400157894.pdf}} The paper had links with the politically moderate wing of the national awakening movement and opposed the more radical wing of Sakala.
During its heyday, Olevik was the best edited Estonian newspaper and had more variety and more substance than other Estonian newspapers at that time, raising topics that were hitherto untreated in Estonian media. The paper was widely supported by the educated Estonian elite. It later supported Russification, though, and opposed Jaan Tõnisson's Postimees. Its publisher Grenzstein has been characterized because of his later position as "the most remarkable representative of Estonian national nihilism".{{cite web|title=Grenzstein, Ado 1849-1916|publisher=Revel Eslen
|url=http://www.eestigiid.ee/?ItemID=277&PYear=aasta&Person=nimi&start=45|archive-date=31 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031103858/http://www.eestigiid.ee/?ItemID=277&PYear=aasta&Person=nimi&start=45}}
The words kirjastaja and kirjastamine (Estonian for publisher and publishing, respectively) were first used in the Estonian language by Ado Grenzstein in Olevik. The paper had a supplement, Virmaline (Estonian: Northern Light).
Juhan Liiv occasionally contributed to Olevik.{{cite web|title=LIFES literature class – interpretation of poetry|url=http://lifescomenius.wordpress.com/category/estonia/|work=LIFES Comenius|access-date=1 January 2015|date=26 February 2014}} Jüri Tilk also contributed to the weekly and later, became its second editor.{{cite journal|author=Anu Pallas|title=Isamaaline tundmus. Eesti ja Soome kirjamees Jüri Tilk ehk Yrjö Virula
|journal=Keel ja Kirjandus|date=2010|url=http://keeljakirjandus.eki.ee/194-210.pdf}} Following the 1905 Russian revolution, the paper featured numerous articles on women's suffrage.
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Category:1882 establishments in the Russian Empire
Category:1915 disestablishments in the Russian Empire
Category:Defunct newspapers published in Estonia
Category:Defunct weekly newspapers
Category:Estonian-language newspapers