Krišjānis Valdemārs

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Krišjānis Valdemārs (also spelt Christian Waldemar or Woldemar) (December 2, 1825 at Vecjunkuri in the civil parish of Ārlava, CourlandDecember 7, 1891 in Moscow, Russia) was a writer, editor, educator, politician, lexicographer, folklorist and economist, the spiritual leader of the first Latvian National Awakening and the most prominent member of the Young Latvia movement.


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