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Andrejs Pumpurs

1841 - 1902

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Andrejs Pumpurs (22 September [O.S. 10 September] 1841 on the left bank of the Daugava, in Lieljumprava civil parish, now Birzgale Parish – 6 July [O.S. 23 June] 1902 in Riga) was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis (The Bear Slayer, first published in 1888) and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement. Working in the land before volunteering to fight in Serbia against the Ottoman Empire in 1876, he became a loyal officer in the Russian army and also a staunch promoter of the Latvian culture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Andrejs Pumpurs is the 4,054th most popular writer (down from 3,486th in 2019), the 1,446th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,287th in 2019) and the 178th most popular Russian Writer.

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Among writers, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 4,054 out of 7,302. Before him are Jurek Becker, Mohammed Hussein Heikal, Zsigmond Móricz, Gary Chapman, Lygia Fagundes Telles, and Emmy Hennings. After him are Bret Harte, Bohuslav Balbín, Emma Lazarus, Marcel Jouhandeau, Shinichi Hoshi, and Hồ Xuân Hương.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 75. Before him are Benedict Menni, John Murray, Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer, Florence Baker, René Panhard, and Antonio Pacinotti. After him are Savva Mamontov, John Fisher, 1st Baron Fisher, William Henry Hudson, Joaquín Crespo, Julius Zeyer, and Louis-Ernest Barrias. Among people deceased in 1902, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 54. Before him are Walter Hauser, Eduard von Toll, Aisha Taymur, Enrique Gaspar y Rimbau, Abd al-Rahman al-Kawakibi, and Salomon Jadassohn. After him are Bret Harte, Gleb Uspensky, Saigō Jūdō, John Wesley Powell, Lőrinc Schlauch, and Clémence Royer.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 1,446 out of 3,761. Before him are Carl Enckell (1876), Mikhail Katkov (1818), Yulii Khariton (1904), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Vladislav Listyev (1956), and Marfa Boretskaya (1450). After him are Nikolai Avksentiev (1878), Apollinary Vasnetsov (1856), Sergei Vasilenko (1872), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), Gleb Uspensky (1843), and Alexander Ragulin (1941).

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Among WRITERS In Russia

Among writers born in Russia, Andrejs Pumpurs ranks 178. Before him are Nikolay Novikov (1744), Apollon Maykov (1821), Rizaeddin bin Fakhreddin (1859), Viktor Yerofeyev (1947), Innokenty Annensky (1855), and Eeva Kilpi (1928). After him are Gleb Uspensky (1843), Mikayel Nalbandian (1829), Alexander Serafimovich (1863), Reinhard Bonnke (1940), Robert Rozhdestvensky (1932), and Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov (1854).

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