Hugo Teodors Krūmiņš (1901-1990) was a Latvian

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and

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. A member of the Latvian Artists' Association, he was married to poet and Latvian chess master

Marta Krūmiņa-Vitrupe Marta Krūmiņa-Vitrupe (born Marta Legzdiņa; March29, 1908February6, 2010) was a Latvian people, Latvian poet, writer and chess master who won the Latvian Chess Championship for women in 1941. Biography Marta Krūmiņa-Vitrupe was born into ...

Biography

He was born to a large family. After completing his secondary education at Limbaži gymnasium, he went on to study between 1920 and 1926 at the faculty of medicine of the

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. He subsequently became a school teacher in

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, although he ended up returning to his native Vitrupes. When the Second World War broke out, he and his wife moved to

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, where he worked as a school manager and where they spent five years. In 1950, they moved to the

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, first to

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, and later on to

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Works

From 1920 he published in numerous periodicals. Works include "Jaunais agronoms" (1927), "Vecpuiši", "Atstātā līgava", "Ideāla vecmāte" (1928), "Priekšzīmīga saimniecība" (1929), "Sāncenši" (1930), "Modernais lauksaimnieks", "Vecpuiši precas" (1931), "Melanholiskais valsis" (1931), "Toms Dižboms" (1932), "Eksportsviests un mīlestība"(1932); "Silzemnieki" (1934), "Druvu dziesma" (1939),"Zemnieka testaments" (1939), "Jūrnieka kristība" (1946), "Cēli kā dzimtenes dievnami" (1949), "Vārds dzejniekiem no tautas" (1963), "Maestro no Rucavas" (1964).

References

1901 births 1990 deaths People from Limbaži Municipality People from Valmiera county Latvian dramatists and playwrights Latvian male poets 20th-century Latvian poets 20th-century dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Latvian male writers Latvian World War II refugees Latvian emigrants to the United States {{Latvia-writer-stub