Rainis

1865 - 1929

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

movement:  New Current
country of citizenship:  Russian EmpireLatvia
native language:  Latvian
languages spoken, written or signed:  GermanLatvianRussian
position held:  deputy of Saeima

Jānis Pliekšāns (11 September 1865 – 12 September 1929), known by his pseudonym Rainis, was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night, 1905) and Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija, 1911), and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism. Source: Wikipedia (en)

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