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Kristjan Jaak Peterson

1801 - 1822

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Kristjan Jaak Peterson (14 March [O.S. 2 March] 1801, Riga – 4 August [O.S. 23 July] 1822, Riga), also known as Christian Jacob Petersohn, was an Estonian poet, commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and the founder of modern Estonian poetry. His birthday on March 14 is celebrated in Estonia as Mother Tongue Day. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kristjan Jaak Peterson is the 3,226th most popular writer (down from 2,791st in 2019), the 89th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 71st in 2019) and the 11th most popular Latvian Writer.

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Among writers, Kristjan Jaak Peterson ranks 3,226 out of 7,302. Before him are Cristina Calderón, Fernán Caballero, Phlegon of Tralles, Yury Tynyanov, John Henry Mackay, and Ignacio Ramonet. After him are Alfredo M. Bonanno, Valentin Rasputin, Erich Fried, Azalais de Porcairagues, Tomaž Šalamun, and Maria Pia de Saxe-Coburgo e Bragança.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Kristjan Jaak Peterson ranks 52. Before him are Georgios Koletis, Eugène Burnouf, Christian Dietrich Grabbe, Hippolyte Bayard, Joseph Ludwig Raabe, and Pedro Santana. After him are Coenraad Johannes van Houten, Charles Elliot, Augustin-Alexandre Dumont, Wilhem de Haan, Atanasio Aguirre, and Evangelos Damaskos. Among people deceased in 1822, Kristjan Jaak Peterson ranks 29. Before him are Sophie de Condorcet, Cheung Po Tsai, Platon Zubov, Józef Wybicki, Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, and Edward Daniel Clarke. After him are Duke Eugen of Württemberg, Frei Galvão, Uesugi Harunori, Hồ Xuân Hương, James Sowerby, and Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarti.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Kristjan Jaak Peterson ranks 89 out of 323. Before him are Wessel Freytag von Loringhoven (1899), Georg August Schweinfurth (1836), Jānis Balodis (1881), Nikolay Lossky (1870), Yevgeny Miller (1867), and Yury Tynyanov (1894). After him are Lina Stern (1878), Eduard Totleben (1818), Ernst Rudolf von Trautvetter (1809), Karl Wilhelm von Kupffer (1829), Vilhelms Purvītis (1872), and Arvīds Jansons (1914).

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Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Kristjan Jaak Peterson ranks 11. Before him are Aspazija (1865), Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), Maria Skobtsova (1891), Vilis Lācis (1904), Vizma Belševica (1931), and Yury Tynyanov (1894). After him are Krišjānis Barons (1835), Garlieb Merkel (1769), Zenta Mauriņa (1897), Anna Brigadere (1861), Astrid Ivask (1926), and Rūdolfs Blaumanis (1863).

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