Ansis Līventāls

Ansis Līventāls (in the old spelling: Anss Lieventhal, 1803—1878) was a Latvian poet, book distributor and translator from German. Honorary member of the Latvian Literary Society (1836). Curriculum vitae He was born on March 29 (April 9) 1803 in the family of the owner of "Jošmaļu" in Laudon parish. As a child, he lost his father early, so he was not sent to school and learned to read by himself. The mother raised her three children in a religious spirit. At first, Ansis worked for a doctor as a butler in the Toce estate, then learned the trade of a carpenter. The gifted young man read books given by the pastor and learned to play the organ from a Vietalva teacher. After the abolition of serfdom, Líventáls moved to Selia, where in 1825 he says he served in the parish of Birži and Sala as a teacher and priest, also performing the position of parish scribe for some time. He also earned money as a tailor, and traveled through the parishes of Selia as a piano and organ tuner. At the encouragement of the parish priest and one of the founders of the Latvian Literary Society, Jákobs Florentíns Lundbergs (1782-1858), he started writing. On February 13, 1830, in the newspaper "Latviešu Avīzes" the translated poem by J. F. Šloterbek was printed in the newspaper "Latviešu Avīzes" and from then on he published his own songs in the newspapers "Latviešu Avīzes" and "Latviešu įžu draugs". In 1836, Liventhal was elected an honorary member of the Latvian Literary Society. In 1836, following the example of A. Ratminder, he set up a sales point (commissioned office) of the book commission in his parish. In several reprints of Lieventhal's poems, the censors deleted the most radical lines of poetry, and after 1843 he stopped publishing poems for 10 years. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary, in 1853, a collection of poems by Līventāls was published in two parts, "Vecas odmes dziesmīnu žinģi liksmības", which included the most popular poems "Cūkas ganot Matīsiņam", "Raug, roze zied", "Nu ar Tivu, lovliā sēta", Whose heart of honor is in nitrogen". In 1869, Lüvental's guide to raising children "Mother Anne and Gretiņa" was published. During the Franco-Prussian War, he toured German lands and published historical articles "The First Revolt of the French" (1870) and "The Wars of the Russians and Germans against the French from 1813 to 1815." (1873). After returning to his homeland, Līventāls expressed his love for his homeland in the poem "Sveiks Baltijai" (1875). At the end of his life, he published more than ten stories translated from German - Krummacher's tragedy "Jānis or persecuted truth" (1874), Fries's stories "Teacher according to the Will of God" (1876), "The House on the Sand" (1876), " Child of Fortune" (1877), Fritz Reiter's humorous "Intensification" (1875), "Brezing and Haverman" (1878).[1] Liventhal's life ended in Birži on January 2, 1878 (December 21, 1877 according to the old style), he was buried in the Birži church cemetery. His three sons grew up in a German environment, Emīls Līventāls became an apothecary, Jūlijs Līventāls a pastor, and Kārlis Augusts Līventāls (1844—1900) became a professor and director of economics at the Riga Polytechnic (1885—1891).[2] Characteristics of poetry Lívental's poetry of nature and love is emotionally rich and imaginative in expression, for example the poem "Bride like a rose": Look, the rose is blooming! I, the bee, run up And kiss those clean leaves, In which the honey dew gathered. It is always green, leafy, blooming; That's why my heart sings merrily: Look, my rose is blooming! With the words of this poem, Jurjāna Andrejs composed a song for a men's choir in 1888, which became one of the most popular Latvian choir songs and was included in the basic repertoire of the Latvian Song Festival.