Juris Alunāns

Gustavs Georgs Frīdrihs Alunāns, known as Juris, was born on 13 May 1832 in Jaunkalsnava, in Livonia. A pupil from 1846 at the district school in Jelgava with his younger brother Indriķis, he studied at the University of Dorpat, where he mixed with Krišjānis Barons and Krišjānis Valdemārs, then followed the latter to Saint Petersburg. He coined some five hundred Latvian words, most of which remain in use, and published from 1856 to 1858 in Mājas Viesis articles on Latvian mythology that Auseklis would remember. He died on 18 April 1864 in Jostene.

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• PoetryDziesmiņas, latviešu valodai pārtulkotasJuris Alunāns · 1856not translated into EnglishLiterature