Tammsaare A.H. (Anton Hansen Tammsaare, 1878-1940)
One of the best-known Estonian novelists, author of the 5-volume masterpiece, Tõde ja Õigus (Truth and Justice, 1926-1933) chronicling the change from life on the land to life in town in 20th-C Estonia. His portrait is on the 25-krooni note (for information on Estonian currency, see Krooni). Clearly, there’s never much money in it for writers... on the other hand, embryologists get even less. Karl Ernst von Baer (1792-1876) – first to establish that mammals develop from eggs – is only worth a 2-krooni banknote, but he was one of Darwin’s major critics. Bastard.