Andrievs Niedra
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Andrievs Niedra (
Niedra's first collection of poems was published when he was only nineteen years old, and he was still in his teens when his stories based on history and folklore began to appear in the newspaper Baltijas Vēstnesis. Between 1890 and 1899 he studied theology at the University of Dorpat (now Tartu). Aesthetically blending realistic fantasy with idealism, his stories, criticism and plays often treated the formation of the Latvian intelligentsia and the situation of the peasantry with regard to the dominant Baltic Germans. Believing that society can only develop through evolution rather than revolution, Niedra was a fierce opponent of socialism and came to be seen as a reactionary in an increasingly revolutionary society.
After collaborating with the German military authorities and their defeat, Niedra fled Latvia. Returning in 1924, he was tried for treason and banished. In exile, the pastor of a German congregation in
References
- OCLC 54799673.
- ^ Šiliņš, Jānis (18 April 2019). "The republic on the sea: The 1919 coup that exiled the Latvian government to a steamboat". Public Broadcasting of Latvia. Retrieved 21 April 2019.
Further reading
- Andrievs Niedra: Tautas nodevēja atmiņas. Piedzīvojumi cīņā pret lielimiecismu. Zinātne, Riga 1998, ISBN 5-7966-1144-5.
- Inta Pētersone (Ed.): Latvijas Brīvības cīņas 1918 – 1920. Enciklopēdja. Preses nams, Riga 1999, ISBN 9984-00-395-7.
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