Andrejs pumpurs biography

Latvian poet

Andrejs Pumpurs (22 September [O.S. 10 September] 1841 on the left bank of the Daugava, in Lieljumprava civil parish, now Birzgale Parish – 6 July [O.S.

Andrejs Pumpurs (–) is a Latvian poet, the author of the Latvian epic poem Lāčplēsis [The Bear Slayer], first published in

Andrejs Pumpurs (–) is a Latvian poet, the author of the Latvian epic poem Lāčplēsis [The Bear Slayer], first published in

Andrejs Pumpurs was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement.

Andrejs Pumpurs (22 September [O.S.

Working in the land before volunteering to fight in Serbia against the Ottoman Empire in , he became a loyal officer in the Russian army and also a staunch.

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23 June] 1902 in Riga) was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis (The Bear Slayer, first published in 1888) and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement. Working in the land before volunteering to fight in Serbia against the Ottoman Empire in 1876, he became a loyal officer in the Russian army and also a staunch promoter of the Latvian culture.

Biography

Growing up on both banks of the Daugava river, he was one of three children from the civil parish chosen by the Lutheran minister for the German class of the church school in Lielvārde. Unable to continue his education after completion of the three-year course, due to his family's poverty, but working as a raftsman and doing odd jobs with his father, Pumpurs was exposed to the Latvian oral tr