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Rainis

1865 - 1929

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Jānis Pliekšāns (11 September 1865 – 11 September 1929), known by his pseudonym Rainis, was a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician. Rainis' works include the classic plays Uguns un nakts (Fire and Night, 1905) and Indulis un Ārija (Indulis and Ārija, 1911), and a highly regarded translation of Goethe's Faust. His works had a profound influence on the literary Latvian language, and the ethnic symbolism he employed in his major works has been central to Latvian nationalism. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Rainis is the 1,435th most popular writer (up from 1,530th in 2019), the 25th most popular biography from Latvia (down from 24th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Latvian Writer.

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Among writers, Rainis ranks 1,435 out of 7,302. Before him are Sanu Sharma, Maryse Condé, Mendele Mocher Sforim, Ruth Rendell, Samuel ibn Naghrillah, and Vivant Denon. After him are Gunnar Gunnarsson, Tarjei Vesaas, James Anderson, Marcel Aymé, Jeppe Aakjær, and Kenji Miyazawa.

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Among people born in 1865, Rainis ranks 48. Before him are Ernst Troeltsch, Nikola Zhekov, Valentin Serov, Frederick Cook, Yvette Guilbert, and Rüdiger von der Goltz. After him are Rafael Merry del Val, Sabino Arana, Princess Marie of Orléans, Abraham Isaac Kook, Edith Cavell, and Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow. Among people deceased in 1929, Rainis ranks 37. Before him are Richard Réti, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Oldfield Thomas, Arthur Scherbius, and Jan Baudouin de Courtenay. After him are Liang Qichao, Maurice Sarrail, Manuel Gomes da Costa, Stepa Stepanović, André Messager, and La Goulue.

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In Latvia

Among people born in Latvia, Rainis ranks 25 out of 323. Before him are Mischa Maisky (1948), Ernst Johann von Biron (1690), Egils Levits (1955), Valdis Zatlers (1955), Jānis Pujats (1930), and Guntis Ulmanis (1939). After him are Jānis Čakste (1859), Pauline Therese of Württemberg (1800), Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Laimdota Straujuma (1951), Frederick William, Duke of Courland (1692), and Viktors Arājs (1910).

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Among WRITERS In Latvia

Among writers born in Latvia, Rainis ranks 2. Before him are Aron Nimzowitsch (1886). After him are Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1751), Barbara von Krüdener (1764), Aspazija (1865), Ferdynand Antoni Ossendowski (1876), Maria Skobtsova (1891), Vilis Lācis (1904), Vizma Belševica (1931), Yury Tynyanov (1894), Kristjan Jaak Peterson (1801), and Krišjānis Barons (1835).

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