Andrejs Pumpurs, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Andrejs Pumpurs

Latvian poet

Date of Birth: 22-Sep-1841

Place of Birth: Livonia Governorate

Date of Death: 06-Jul-1902

Profession: writer, poet, military officer, author

Nationality: Latvia

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Andrejs Pumpurs (22 September [O.S.
10 September] 1841 on the Courland side of the former Lieljumprava civil parish, now Birzgale parish – 6 July [O.S.
23 June] 1902 in Riga) was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lacplesis (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.