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Johan Hansing

Estonian politician and actor (1888-1941)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ12365157 ↗
Source-derived summary

Johan Hansing (10 October 1888 Narva – 24 July 1941 Sverdlovsk Oblast) was an Estonian lawyer, stage actor, playwright, and politician. He was a member of the Estonian National Assembly (Estonian: Rahvuskogu) and elected Mayor of Narva in 1940.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Johan Hansing” is estonian politician and actor (1888-1941). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Johan, Hansing and Estonian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1888, 1941, 1940—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1888-10-10. For this dossier, Johan, Hansing and Estonian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “estonian politician and actor (1888-1941)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12365157. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1888, 1941 and 1940.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Johan Hansing”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Johan Hansing primary sources, Johan Hansing archive and Johan research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Johan Hansing”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Johan Hansing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.