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Krišjānis Barons

Died in 1923

Krišjānis Barons was born on 31 October 1835 in Strutele, in the parish of Jaunpils. After the gymnasium in Jelgava, he studied mathematics and astronomy at Tartu, then moved to Saint Petersburg, where in 1862 he became the editor of Pēterburgas Avīzes. A tutor in the household of Ivan Stankevich, he began sorting the folk songs there, returned to Latvia in 1893 with his collection and died in Riga on 8 March 1923.

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