Kārlis Jēkabsons

Kārlis Jēkabsons (1879–1946) was a Latvian poet, writer and translator. Curriculum vitae Born on April 5, 1879 in the family of the owner of Skuķi houses in Ogre parish. He studied at the Ogre parish school (1889-1895), the Cēsu K. Miller private real school (1896) and the Riga N. Mironov private commercial school (1897-1902). In 1904, he published his first collection of poems. In 1906, together with his associates, he published the so-called decadent manifesto "Motives of our art" in the magazine "Dzelmė". Studied at Riga Polytechnic Institute (1910-1912, 1914-1915). During the First World War, he fled to Russia, lived in Petrograd and Pskov, where he worked in the newspaper "Dzimtenes Vēstnesis" (1915-1917). After the signing of the Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty in 1918, he returned to Riga, where he lived and continued to write poetry with short breaks. During the Second World War, he published his best poems in a new version in the collection "Lirika" (1-2, 1939-1942). Died on April 1, 1946 in Ventspils, buried in Ventspils Forest Cemetery.