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Latvian schoolteacher and writer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reinis Kaudzīte (Old orthography: Reinis Kaudsit; May 12, 1839 – August 21, 1920), was a Latvian schoolteacher and writer.[1] His novel Mērnieku laiki ("Time of the Surveyors") was the first novel written in Latvian, co-authored with his brother Matīss Kaudzīte in 1879.[2]
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Reinis Kaudzīte | |
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Born | Vecpiebalga Parish, Kreis Wenden, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire (now Latvia) | May 12, 1839
Died | August 21, 1920 81) Vecpiebalga Parish, Latvia | (aged
Occupation | writer |
Nationality | Latvian |
Reinis Kaudzīte was born in "Mādari", Vecpiebalga Parish, in the heart of Vidzeme. He had not attended the school himself but became a teacher of geography and religion classes in Kalna Kaibēni parish school at the age of 28.
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