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Imants Valers
Imants is a Latvian masculine given name, from the Livonian language: ''im'' meaning "miracle" added to ''and'' meaning "gift". The name is borne by more than 6,250 men in Latvia.PMLP database Its nameday is celebrated on 1 July. The name is one of the relatively few surviving Latvian names of indigenous origin from among the great number revived or introduced during the Latvian National Awakening of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. According to the Latvian calendar, the name day for Imants is July 1. Individuals The name Imants may refer to the following: *Imants Barušs, Canadian professor of psychology *Imants Bleidelis (born 1975), Latvian footballer * Imants Bodnieks (born 1941), Latvian racing cyclist * Imants Kalniņš (born 1941), Latvian composer * Imants Kokars (1921–2011), Latvian music pedagogue and conductor * Imants Lancmanis (born 1941), Latvian art historian * Imants Lešinskis (born 1935), KGB agent * Imants Lieģis (born 1955), Latvian ambassador * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imanta (given Name)
Imants is a Latvian masculine given name, from the Livonian language: ''im'' meaning "miracle" added to ''and'' meaning "gift". The name is borne by more than 6,250 men in Latvia.PMLP database Its nameday is celebrated on 1 July. The name is one of the relatively few surviving Latvian names of indigenous origin from among the great number revived or introduced during the Latvian National Awakening of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. According to the Latvian calendar, the name day for Imants is July 1. Individuals The name Imants may refer to the following: *Imants Barušs, Canadian professor of psychology *Imants Bleidelis (born 1975), Latvian footballer *Imants Bodnieks (born 1941), Latvian racing cyclist *Imants Kalniņš (born 1941), Latvian composer *Imants Kokars (1921–2011), Latvian music pedagogue and conductor *Imants Lancmanis (born 1941), Latvian art historian *Imants Lešinskis (born 1935), KGB agent *Imants Lieģis (born 1955), Latvian ambassador *Imants P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imants Kokars
Imants Kokars (16 August 1921 in Gulbene, Latvia – 24 November 2011 in Riga, Latvia) was a Latvian pedagogue and conductor. His twin brother Gido Kokars was also a conductor. Imants Kokar has been chief conductor of several Latvian Song and Dance Festivals and initiated the Nordic-Baltic Choral Festival in 1995. On 12 April 1995 Imants Kokars was awarded the Order of the Three Stars Order of the Three Stars ( lv, Triju Zvaigžņu ordenis) is the highest civilian order awarded for meritorious service to Latvia. It was established in 1924 in remembrance of the founding of Latvia. Its motto is "Per aspera ad astra", meaning "Thr ..., third class. References 1921 births 2011 deaths People from Gulbene Latvian conductors (music) Male conductors (music) Soviet conductors (music) Latvian twins Academic staff of Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music People's Artists of the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic Recipients of the Cross of Recognition {{Latvia-musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imants Ziedonis
Imants Ziedonis (3 May 1933 – 27 February 2013) was a Latvian poet and writer who first rose to fame during the Soviet era in Latvia. Early life and education Ziedonis was born in the Sloka fisherman's district of Jūrmala, Latvia. He was educated at the University of Latvia in Riga where he earned a degree in philology in 1959. He earned an additional degree in advanced literature in Moscow in 1964. As a young man, Ziedonis worked in a wide variety of jobs ranging from librarian to road construction worker and from teacher to literary editor. Career and literary works Ziedonis published his first major collection of poetry 'Zemes un sapņu smilts' ('Sand of earth and dreams') in 1961. By the end of the decade, he had established himself as among the preeminent voices of Latvian literature through publishing three more important collections of poetry: 'Sirds dinamīts' (1963, 'Heart's Dynamite'), 'Motocikls' (1965, 'Motorcycle'), and 'Es ieeju sevī' (1968, 'I Enter Myself'). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imants Zemzaris
Imants Zemzaris (born 14 April 1951) is a Latvian composer and teacher. His family is famous in Latvia due to his grandfather Jānis Endzelīns. A native of Riga, he studied in Emīls Dārziņš Music School and Latvia State Conservatory with Ādolfs Skulte Ādolfs Skulte ( Kiev, October 28, 1909 – Riga, March 20, 2000) was a Latvian composer and pedagogue. Among his pupils were the composers Aivars Kalējs, Romualds Kalsons, Imants Zemzaris, Romualds Grīnblats, Mārtiņš Brauns and Ima .... Among his compositions are chamber and vocal music, as well as music for theatre and movies. He is also an interpreter of his own piano music. References External linksBiography 1951 births Living people Musicians from Riga Latvian composers Latvian Academy of Music alumni {{latvia-composer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imants Tillers
Imants Tillers (born 1950), is an Australian artist, curator and writer. He lives and works in Cooma, New South Wales. Early life and education Imants Tillers was born in Sydney in 1950, the child of Latvian immigrants. In 1973 he graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture (Hons), and the University Medal. Career Tillers held his first solo exhibition in the early 1970s. During the following decade, he started producing his paintings using a system of small canvas boards, with the individual boards either stacked, or hung in a grid-like fashion to create large tableaux. His artworks are complex, infused with intellectual references to a wide range of topics, including history, poetry and philosophy, as well as his own personal experiences. Tillers also produced a number of collaborative works with Warlpiri artist Kumantje Jagamara (Michael Nelson Jagamara, between 2001 and Jagamara's death in 2020. Exhibitions Tillers has exhibited wid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imants Sudmalis
Imants Sudmalis (18 March 1916 OS, Cēsis, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire – 25 May 1944 NS, Riga, Latvia) was a Latvian editor and Soviet communist and partisan, the Hero of the Soviet Union (awarded posthumously on October 23, 1957). Life and career Sudmalis was born in to the family of a teacher. A sympathizer of Communism from a young age, Sudmalis became a memmber of the underground Communist Union of the Youth of Latvia from 1932, and head of the underground Komsomol organization in Liepāja during the dictatorship of Kārlis Ulmanis. He was jailed for his pro-Soviet agitation but released following the Soviet occupation in 1940. He became a member of the Latvian Lenin Communist Youth Central Committee and secretary for its Liepāja branch and was editor of Liepāja's party newspaper, ''Komunists'' ("''The Communist''").Latvijas PSR Mazā Enciklopēdija (The Latvian SSR Concise Encyclopedia). Riga: Zinate. 1970. During the Nazi occupation in World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imants Priede
Imants (Monty) George Priede is a British-Latvian zoologist, author and academic. He is Professor Emeritus in the University of Aberdeen, Scotland known for his work on fish and life in the deep sea. Priede has published over 150 research papers concerned with fish, fisheries and the marine environment. He is author of the textbook ''Deep-Sea Fishes: Biology, Diversity, Ecology and Fisheries.'' He is Editor-In-Chief of the journal ''Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers.'' Two species of deep-sea animals have been named in honour of Priede, a worm ''Prodistomum priedei'' and a fish ''Pachycara priedei''. Priede is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Early life and education Priede studied Marine Zoology at the Bangor University. Later, he joined University of Stirling where he received his Ph.D. in 1973. His Ph.D. thesis at the University of Stirling was entitled "The physiology of circulation during swimming activity in rainbow trout" for which he rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imants Lieģis
Imants Viesturs Lieģis (born 30 April 1955) is a prominent Latvian diplomat and politician. Since 2016 he serves as Latvia's ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to France, as well as non-resident ambassador to Algeria, Morocco and Monaco. He served as Latvia's defence minister from 2009 to 2010. Lieģis was appointed to the defence ministry post in March 2009, as part of the new six-party coalition government headed by Valdis Dombrovskis. In 2010 joined the Civic Union party and was elected to the Parliament, he was Chairman of the European Affairs Committee and Chairman of Delegation to the NATO PA until October 2011. He is a board member of the European Leadership Network. A career diplomat, Lieģis served previously as Latvia's ambassador to NATO, a post to which he was appointed in 1997 while also serving as ambassador to the Benelux countries. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain from September 2008 to March 2009. Ambassador to Hungary from 2012 to 2016. He was bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imants Lešinskis
Imants Lešinskis (17 December 1931 – 23 December 1985) was a Latvian KGB agent and a double agent for the CIA who defected from the Soviet Union to the United States with his wife and daughter in 1978 while working for the United Nations in New York City. His daughter, Ieva Lešinska, made a film about her relationship with her father called ''My Father the Spy''. His work in the KGB mainly consisted of denouncing and defaming, both domestically and abroad, those Latvians perceived as anti-Soviet. Biography Lešinskis was born in 1931, in Riga, Latvia. In 1956, Lešinskis was blackmailed into joining the KGB as an informant. In 1960, during the 1960 Summer Olympics, under the cover of working for a newspaper called the ''Homeland Voice'', he was tasked with contacting Latvian athletes on the Australian Olympic Team, but he instead approached the American embassy in Rome seeking political asylum. His request was turned down, but he was offered a job working as a CIA inform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imants Lancmanis
Imants Lancmanis (born July 29, 1941) is a Latvian painter and art historian. He has also been the director of Rundāle Palace Museum from 1976 until 2019. Biography Imants Lancmanis was born on July 29, 1941, in Riga. In 1959 he graduated from J. Rozentāls Art High School and continued his studies in the painting department of the Art Academy of Latvia. In the 1960s as an Art Academy student, he visited Rundāle Palace for the first time. Later he met the director of the Bauska Local History Museum, Laimonis Liepa, who offered him an opportunity to work in the newly established Rundāle Palace Museum. After graduation in 1966 Lancmanis started his full-time job in Rundāle Palace. In 1972 Lancmanis became deputy director of Rundāle Palace museum and director in 1976. He has been primarily responsible for reconstruction and restoration work done in the palace from the 1970s until 2014. Lancmanis has also extensively researched art history in Latvia. He is an author of several ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imants Kalniņš
Imants Kalniņš (born 26 May 1941 in Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian composer, musician and politician. Having studied classical and choral music, he has written seven symphonies, several operas (including the first rock opera in the USSR, , oratorios, cantatas, choir songs, a lot of movie and theater music. However, he is generally best known for his rock songs and is to be considered the first composer of intellectual rock music in Latvia. In 2021, Kalniņš received the Grand Music Award for lifetime achievement. Furthermore, he served as a member of the 5th, 7th, 8th, and 9th sitting of the Saeima, the parliament of Latvia, from 1993 to 1995 and again from 1998 through 2010, representing the For Fatherland and Freedom/LNNK party. Life and career During the 1960s, Kalniņš led the Liepāja rock band 2xBBM, which was extremely loved because of its heartfelt songs and hippy-like lifestyle. Kalniņš became the symbol of the spirituality, rebellion and worldview of the genera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latvian Masculine Given Name
Latvian names, like in most European cultures, consist of two main elements: the given name (''vārds'') followed by family name (''uzvārds''). During the Soviet occupation (1940–1941; 1944–1991) the practice of giving a middle name (''otrais vārds'') was discouraged, but since the restoration of independence, Latvian legislation again allows the giving of up to two given names and it has become more common to give a middle name to children. Latvian male names end in 1st or 2nd declension masculine endings, either ''-s/-š'' or ''-is'' (with a handful of mostly foreign exceptions ending in indeclinable ''-o'', such as ''Ivo'', ''Raivo'', ''Gvido'', ''Bruno'', ''Oto'' and only a few belonging to the 3rd declension ending in ''-us'', such as ''Ingus'', ''Mikus'', ''Edžus'', ''Zemgus''). Latvian female names have the feminine 4th or 5th declension endings ''-a'' or ''-e'' respectively. For centuries, one of the most popular Latvian names has been ''Jānis'', whose written use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
