Kallista Kann
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Kallista Kann was born in Tartu in the Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, the daughter of the schoolteacher Hans Kann (1849–1932) and Liisa Kann (née Pettai, 1856–1936). She was the sister of the music teacher Salme Kann. 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. From 1935 to 1936, she studied in Paris as a fellow of the French Research Institute of Tartu (Estonian: Tartu Prantsuse Teaduslik Instituut, French: l'Institut scientifique français de Tartu).[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).
