KÄrlis MÄ«lenbahs
Karlis Mīlenbahs (also: mu ( h) lenbach, mill Bach or Mīlenbachs ) (. . * 6 Januarjul / January 18 1853greg at Kandava government Kurland, † March 27, 1916 in Võru, Estonia) was an educator and the first linguist Latvian language.
Life
Mīlenbahs studied from 1876 to 1880 classical philology at the University of Dorpat, but could not stay at the university because of his poverty.
His first publication - an article in Issue 2 of the Journal Pagalms ( German: Courtyard ) - still appeared under the pseudonym Līgciemnieks ( German: Fluctuating villagers ).
He taught from 1881 to 1889 at the elementary school in Talsi, then until 1895 at the German school in Jelgava and Riga from the autumn of 1895 at Alexander High School.
He was the author of over one hundred scholarly articles on language in Latvian, Russian and German and a member of the Latvian Literärischen society. However, his major achievement was a Latvian- German dictionary, which is the most important lexicographical work on Latvian language today. The four volumes were printed posthumously in 1923-1932 in Riga. The dictionary has been expanded by Jānis Endzelīns and completed, together with the Mīlenbahs also wrote other works, so a larger Latvian grammar. The dispute with Rainis resulted in an important essay on the Latvian in the literature. Mīhlenbahs was also translator of the Odyssey ( 1890-95 ).
Others
The high school in Kandava received in 1936 under the name Charles Mill Creek High School (in Latvian: Karla Mīlenbaha vidusskola ). After Latvia was incorporated in 1940 in the Soviet Union, no value has been set by the Russian side to the care of the Latvian language and so the school was carried out from 1945 as Kandavaer high school without suffix. Only since 1996, the school again bears the name of Karlis Mīlenbahs.