Pauls Dauge, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pauls Dauge

Latvian dentist, Bolshevik revolutionary activist, writer

Date of Birth: 10-Aug-1869

Place of Birth: Sauka, Viesīte Municipality, Latvia

Date of Death: 02-Sep-1946

Profession: dentist, teacher, public figure, publisher, revolutionary

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Pauls Dauge

  • Pauls Dauge (born August 22, 1869, Sauka parish – February 9, 1946, Riga) was a Latvian dentist, Bolshevik revolutionary activist and writer. Dauge formed part of the New Current group of Latvian intellectuals (along with Peteris Stucka) that advocated Marxist thought.
  • He graduated from the Moscow Dental School in 1897, and went on to study at a dental college in Berlin.
  • In 1904 he met with Vladimir Lenin, abroad.
  • He worked in Moscow for a few years.
  • During the period 1905–1907 he was active in a literary lecturing team of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (of which he had become a member in 1903).
  • His underground party name was 'Pik'.
  • Dauge translated various works of Friedrich Engels into Latvian language.
  • He also worked with the Bolshevik newspapers Borba and Svetoch.
  • He was a delegate to the second and third congresses of the Social Democracy in the Latvian Territory.He took part in the October Revolution in Moscow.
  • In 1918 he was named Chief of the Dental Section of the People's Commissariat of Public Health of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, a position he would hold until 1928.
  • In 1923 he founded the journal ??????????? ? ???????????? ('Odontology and Dentistry').
  • In 1928 the Moscow State Scientific and Practical Dentistry Institute was founded, upon the proposal of Dauge.
  • He began research work in Riga and Moscow, and lectured at the Moscow Institute.
  • Dauge became a member of the International Dental Academy based in Washington, DC in 1929, and was named Honorary Member of Vienna Dental Society in 1931.He was a delegate at the 8th and 15th congresses of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.Dauge was imprisoned during the Great Purge.
  • In 1945 he was awarded the Worker of Culture Honour of the Latvian SSR.

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