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Andrejs Pumpurs (1841 - 1902)
Andrejs Pumpurs (September 22, 1841 on the Courland side of the former Lieljumprava civil parish, now Birzgale parish – July 6, 1902 in Riga) was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis (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.
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