We cater to a amount of excellent personalities who are celebrating crucial anniversaries this year. Considering that the very first on this list is a philologist, a folklorist Jacob Lautenbach, also acknowledged as the poet Jēkabs Jūsmiņš. Teaching employees of the University of Tērbat and later on of the College of Latvia. July 20 marked the 175th anniversary of Jacob Lautenbach’s delivery. This was told by the literary scholar, professor at the College of Latvia Ojārs Lāms.
December 15, 2022 also marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of Zenta Mauriņa – philologist, thinker, one of the most critical connoisseurs and disseminators of European tradition in Latvia. The thinker and historian of literature Edgars Mucenieks recounts his lifetime and his contribution.
And another December jubilee is a poet Janis Zemielnieks, whose start will transform 125 on 24 December. The poet’s vibrant and, it ought to be mentioned, tragic identity was an inspiration to his modern poet and writer, Jānis Plaudis, the writer of the novel “The Northerner”, and Andris Zeibot, the writer of the lately revealed novel “Krauklis”, and also for the creators of the Tv set series “Emīlija. Queen of the Latvian Press”. About Jānis Ziemiekniek – literary scholar, professor emeritus of the University of Latvia Viesturs Vecgrāvis.
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