Kentmanni (Wilhelm Gottfried Kentmann, ca.1800-ca.1874)
Pedagogue and headmaster of a charity school for poor children (Luthers Armenschule, funded by Christian Luther) from 1830-1874 (attended, among others, by Bornhöhe E. and Vilde E.). The street was also named for short periods (1939-1940 & 1941-1944) after Konstantin Päts (trivia drop: päts, or loaf of (corn)bread, is a possible cognate of Georgian ფეჩი, peči or ‘cast-iron stove’ and the street is 350 m from Ahju), 1st President of the Republic of Estonia (died 1956 at a Soviet psychiatric hospital while undergoing a rest for the insanity of believing he actually was President of the Republic of Estonia), interspersed by Kreuksi J. in the Soviet occupation (1940-1941 & 1944-1989) and, seemingly but uncertainly, a brief, few-day interlude in 1942 after Hermann Göring. Street namesake often confused Kentmann senior and junior, the latter, Woldemar Friedrich, was author of Koolilaste Geograahwia raamat (Geography book for schoolchildren, 1875) and Geograahwia kaardid koolilaste geograahwia-raamatu lisaks (Maps for a geography textbook, 1884).
