Reinis Kaudzīte and Matīss Kaudzīte

Reinis Kaudzīte was born on 12 May 1839 and his younger brother Matīss on 18 August 1848, both at Mādari, in the parish of Vecpiebalga, in Vidzeme. Reinis, a self-taught man, was a craftsman and then a teacher at the parish school of Kalna Kaibēni; Matīss taught at Vecpiebalga from 1868 to 1904 and also published poems, plays and, in 1924, recollections of the time of the national awakening. The first author of aphorisms in Latvian literature, Reinis died on 21 August 1920 at Kalna Kaibēni, and Matīss on 8 November 1926.

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• NovelMērnieku laikiReinis Kaudzīte and Matīss Kaudzīte · 1879not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain