Aleksandrs Grins

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Aleksandrs Grīns , born as Jēkabs Grīns , (born August 15, 1895 in Birži near Jēkabpils , † December 25, 1941 in Astrakhan ) was a Latvian journalist and writer.

Life

Grins participated 1918/20 in the brigade of Janis Balodis the Latvian independence struggle against the Bolsheviks and their attempts a Soviet Republic to build in Latvia. After the war he resumed his medical studies at the University of Tartu and published journalistic works and novels which, among other things, were intended to bring to mind the medieval Latvian traditions.

During the Soviet occupation of Latvia, Grīns was arrested on June 14, 1941 as a member of the Latvian Army, deported from the LSSR on the night of June 24th to 25th, sentenced to death in October and executed in Astrakhan in December .

plant

In his popular and award-winning work Der Ring von Nameise (1931) Grīns tied in with the mythical struggles of the leader of the Zemgalli , Nameise or Nameitis , against the Teutonic Order . One of Nameise's descendants leads the fight against foreign rule under the Lithuanian Grand Duchy in the 17th century. In his textbook on the history of Latvia, Grīns postulated the existence of a unified “Old Latvia” as early as the 12th and 13th centuries. As with other authors of the epoch, the Zemgall worship served to support the authoritarian regime of Kārlis Ulmanis .

Catalog raisonné

  • Veļi (1919)
  • Iz leitnanta Vanaga dienasgrāmatas (1920)
  • Krustneša gaitas (1921)
  • Pieviltā vīra atriebšanas "un citas noveles (1922)
  • Vadonis skuķkopībā. I daļa ... (under the pseudonym Homo Grisinbergensis , 1925)
  • Septiņi un viens (1926)
  • Likteņa varā (1928)
  • Nameja gredzens (1928–1931) (The Ring of Nameise, 1931)
  • Dvēseļu putenis (two volumes, 1933–1934)
  • Debesu ugunis (unfinished, 1934)
  • Tobago (1934)
  • Latvijas vēsture papildskolām, pamatskolām un pašmācībai (History of Latvia for Complementary Schools, Elementary Schools and Self-Study , 1935)
  • Pelēkais jātnieks (1937)
  • Meža bērni (1938)
  • Saderinātie (trilogy):
    • I daļa Pelēkais jātnieks (1938)
    • II daļa Sarkanais jātnieks (1938)
    • III daļa Melnais jātnieks (1940)
  • Trīs vanagi (1938)
  • Zemes atjaunotāji (in two volumes):
    • I daļa Meža bērni (1939)
    • II daļa Atdzimusī cilts (1939)
  • Pārnākšana (1941)

Honors

  • 1934: three-star medal
  • 1938: Kultūras fonda godalga (Prize of the Cultural Foundation)

literature

  • Kaspars Klavins (Kļaviņš): The idea of ​​the Middle Ages as an example of the changing value system in Latvia during the 20th century. In: Baltica. The quarterly publication for Baltic culture. Hamburg 2001, issue 1, pp. 17-26.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZDB ID 22314-1
personal data
SURNAME Grins, Aleksandrs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grīns, Jēkabs (maiden name); Homo Grisinbergensis (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Birži at Jēkabpils
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1941
Place of death Astrakhan