Auseklis

Miķelis Krogzemis, who signed as Auseklis, the morning star, was born on 18 September 1850 at Sīpoli, in the parish of Ungurpils, in Vidzeme, into a peasant family. Trained at the teachers' seminary in Valka under Jānis Cimze, he taught at Jaunpiebalga, Cēsis and Lielvārde, where he ran a theatre and a choir, and had to leave after conflicts with the pastors. In Saint Petersburg from 1874, he became close to the composer Baumaņu Kārlis and wrote for the satirical journal Dunduri. He died there on 6 February 1879; his funeral, at Aloja, took on a national character.

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• PoetryGaismas pilsAuseklis · 1888not translated into EnglishLiterature