Reinis Kaudzīte
Reinis Kaudzīte (Old orthography: "Reinis Kaudsit"; May 12, 1839 – August 21, 1920), was a Latvian schoolteacher and writer. His novel "Mērnieku laiki" ("Time of the Surveyors") was the first novel written in Latvian, co-authored with his brother Matīss Kaudzīte in 1879. Reinis Kaudzīte was born in "Mādari", Vecpiebalga Parish, in the heart of Vidzeme. He had not attended the school himself but became a teacher of geography and religion classes in Kalna Kaibēni parish school at the age of 28.