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Mati Hint

Estonian linguist and politician (1937-2019)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ12369984 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mati Hint (28 August 1937 – 5 December 2019) was an Estonian linguist and politician. He was a member of VII Riigikogu (for Estonian Center Party).

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Mati Hint” is estonian linguist and politician (1937-2019). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Mati, Hint and Estonian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937-08-28. For this dossier, Mati, Hint and Estonian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “estonian linguist and politician (1937-2019)” 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

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q12369984. VIAF identifies the subject as 2589856. The Library of Congress control number is n79043743. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937 and 2019.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Mati Hint”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Mati Hint primary sources, Mati Hint archive and Mati 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 “Mati Hint”?
  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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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Mati Hint” 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.