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    Jelgava Gymnasium or Academia Petrina is the oldest higher educational establishment in Latvia. Based on an idea by Friedrich Wilhelm von Raison [de]...
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  • no great calling for the priesthood and enrolled into Jelgava Gymnasium instead. Jelgava Gymnasium was a cultural hub of the Lithuanian National Revival...
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    However, he felt no great calling for priesthood and enrolled at the Jelgava Gymnasium in Latvia. This was a cultural hub of the Lithuanian National Revival...
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    succeeded in obtaining an appointment as a teacher of Greek and Latin at Jelgava Gymnasium, Latvia where he remained until 1896. His home became a frequent gathering...
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    Vesmaņa and Elizabetes Vesmanes (née Straumanes). After graduating from Jelgava Gymnasium, Vesmanis studied at the University of Tartu. He was arrested in 1897...
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  • mother came from a wealthy family of Baltic Germans. Arājs attended Jelgava Gymnasium, which he left in 1930 for mandatory national defense service in the...
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    his primary education from his parents, he thereafter finished the Jelgava Gymnasium and from 1902 studied law at the Tartu University, from where he graduated...
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    21 March 1980 in Jelgava) is a Latvian writer, copywriter and translator from French. After studying at the local Gymnasium in Jelgava, he went to Riga...
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    Kudirka, founder of Varpas. In 1900, Mickevičius was admitted to Jelgava Gymnasium. In 1901 he was expelled for storing illegal Lithuanian press and...
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    the Latgalian language and culture. Trasuns was a student of the Jelgava Gymnasium, then from 1883 to 1887 he studied in Saint Petersburg's theological...
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