Matīss Kaudzīte
Matīss Kaudzīte ( German Matthies Kaudsit ; * August 18, 1848 Vecpiebalga municipality , Livonia Governorate ; † November 8, 1926 Vecpiebalga municipality) was a Latvian teacher, publicist and writer.
Life
He was born on a farm near Vecpiebalga, attended the local community school and a course for teachers. In 1868 he got a job as a church teacher, published his first newspaper articles and became a member of the Latvian Literary Society. He took an active part in the local cultural life and wrote poems, plays and in 1879 the novel Mērnieku laiki with his brother Reinis Kaudzīte in 1879 . This detective novel was the first ever Latvian-language novel . The two brothers also put together several textbooks and published travelogues about various Western European countries.
In 1911 Matīss Kaudzīte was retired. From 1915 to 1917 he was a refugee in Russia. He then lived on his farm again until his death in 1926.
The Kaudzīte brothers' home was converted into a museum in 1929, the first of its kind in Latvia. The novel "Mērnieku laiki" was published in 1883 for the first time in part in a German translation and in 2012 in a completely new German version.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kaudzīte, Matīss |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kaudsit, Matis |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vecpiebalga municipality |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 8, 1926 |
| Place of death | Vecpiebalga municipality |