Eduards Veidenbaums (Glāznieki, Priekuļi parish, 3 October 1867 — Kalāči, Mūrmuiža parish, 24 May 1892) was a Latvian poet and translator.

Biography

Eduards Veidenbaums was born at the Glāznieki farmstead in the Priekuļi parish (now territory of Cēsis). In 1872 his family moved to Kālāči in the Mūrmuiža parish. In 1887 after finishing Riga governorate gymnasium, Veidenbaums started to study law at the University of Tartu.

Eduards Veidenbaums

In May 1892 he died of tuberculosis after five months' illness.

Eduards Veidenbaums

Bibliography

Poetry

Dzejas (1896) Dzejas (London 1900)

Eduards Veidenbaums

Complete works

Kopoti raksti. 1—2. R.: LVI, (1961) Raksti (1926) Kopoti raksti. 1—6 (1907–1909)

Selections

Dzejas. R.: Nordik (2005) Domāju es domas dziļas... R.: Draugi N.I.M.S. (2000) Brīvības cēlajais gars. R.: Liesma (1978) Izlase. R.: LVI (1952)

About the writer

Līvija Volkova. Eduards Veidenbaums. R. (1979) A.Vilsons. Eduarda Veidenbauma dzīve. R. (1967) Rūdolfs Egle. Eduards Veidenbaums dzīvē un darbos. Cēsis/R. (1926)

References

1867 births

1892 deaths

People from Priekuļi Municipality

People from Kreis Wenden

Latvian male poets

19th-century Latvian poets

University of Tartu alumni

19th-century deaths from tuberculosis

Tuberculosis deaths in the Russian Empire

Poets from the Russian Empire