Rainis
Sign in to saveJānis 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.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 11 September 1865
- Died
- 12 September 1929
- Works
- 53
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 81
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5 total works indexed
- Diagnosis and Classification of 17 Diseases from 1404 Subjects <i>via</i> Pattern Analysis of Exhaled Molecules
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- Towards a realistic transport modeling in a superconducting nanowire with Majorana fermions
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- Cascades of multisite phosphorylation control Sic1 destruction at the onset of S phase
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Key facts
- Person.name
- Jānis Pliekšāns
- Person.image
- Rainis.jpg
- Person.birth_place
- "Varslavāni" farm, Dunava parish, Courland Governorate, Russian Empire
- Person.death_place
- Majori, Latvia
- Person.occupation
- Poet Playwright translator politician
- Person.spouse
- Aspazija
- Person.awards
- Order of the Three Stars, 1st class (1925)
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Key dates
- Born
- 30 August 1865
- Died
- 12 September 1929
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jānis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Latvia
- Place of death
- Jūrmala
- Spouse
- Aspazija
- Occupation
- journalist
- Educated at
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Political party
- Latvian Social Democratic Workers' Party
- Languages spoken
- Russian
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- Early career
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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.
== Early life == thumb|left|upright|Rainis aged 15. Rainis was born on "Varslavāni" farm, Dunava parish in Jēkabpils Municipality. His father, Krišjānis Pliekšāns (ca. 1828–1891), was a tenant farmer. His mother was Dārta, née Grikovska (ca. 1828–1899), and he had two sisters, Līze (1854–1897) and Dora (1870–1950). During his education at the Riga City Gymnasium he met and befriended Pēteris Stučka, Dora Pliekšāne's future husband, who later become a prominent Latvian communist.
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