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Young Latvia (other)
Young Latvia may refer to: *Young Latvia movement, Latvia, 19th century *Jaunlatvija, political party, Latvia, 21st century *Jaunā Latvija, an extreme right party, Latvia, 1933–1934 {{Disambig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Latvia Movement
New Latvians ( lv, jaunlatvieši) is the term most often applied to the intellectuals of the First Latvian National Awakening ( lv, Tautas atmoda), active from the 1850s to the 1880s. The movement was modeled on the Young Germany (german: Junges Deutschland) movement led by Heinrich Heine. Originally a derogatory epithet applied to these nationalist intellectuals by their mostly Baltic German opponents, the term "Young Latvia" (german: "ein junges Lettland") was first used by Gustav Wilhelm Sigmund Brasche, the pastor of Nīca, in a review of Juris Alunāns' ''Dziesmiņas latviešu valodai pārtulkotas'' ("Little Songs Translated for the Latvian Language") in the newspaper ''Das Inland'' in 1856. Asking who could appreciate such literature in Latvian (Alunāns' book was the first major translation of classic foreign poetry into Latvian), Brasche warned that those daring to dream of "a Young Latvia" would meet the tragic fate of the boatman in Heine's poe"Die Lorelei,"a translati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaunlatvija
Jaunlatvija ("Young Latvia") was a political party in Latvia. The party, described as socially liberal, was founded on March 28, 2009 at the congress held in the National Theatre in Riga. Didzis Šmits was elected its chairman. Its supporters included ex-president Guntis Ulmanis and scientist Jānis Stradiņš, although the two did not join the party ranks."Jaunlatvija becomes Latvia’s newest political party" , ''Latvians Online'', March 28, 2009 Among party declarations, of note were their desire to involve younger people in politics and to integrate non-citizens into Latvian society (see " Russians in Latvia" for the latter issue). Municipal elections, June 2009< ...
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