Eduards Veidenbaums

Eduards Veidenbaums (3 October 1867 – 24 May 1892) was a Latvian poet and translator.

Eduards Veidenbaums was born at the Glāznieki farmstead in the Priekuļi parish (now territory of Cēsis).

In 1887 after finishing Riga governorate gymnasium, Veidenbaums started to study law at the University of Tartu.

Veidenbaums' interests included economics, farming and history and was one of the founders of the scientific literary society Pīpkalonija.

After five months of illness he died of tuberculosis on 24 May 1892 in Mūrmuiža parish and was buried in the village cemetery of Liepa.