Juris Alunāns (official name Gustavs Georgs Frīdrihs Alunāns; May 13, 1832 – April 18, 1864) was a Latvian writer and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...

in the Russian Empire. He was one of the first contributors of

Latvian language Latvian ( ), also known as Lettish, is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family, spoken in the Baltic region. It is the language of Latvians and the official language of Latvia as well a ...

. He was one of the members of the

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: Jung ...

. Alunāns created about 500

neologism A neologism Greek νέο- ''néo''(="new") and λόγος /''lógos'' meaning "speech, utterance"] is a relatively recent or isolated term, word, or phrase that may be in the process of entering common use, but that has not been fully accepted int ...

s, most of which quickly incorporated in the everyday Latvian language and are still used.

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1832 births 1864 deaths People from Madona Municipality People from Kreis Wenden Latvian philologists Linguists from the Russian Empire Writers from the Russian Empire 19th-century Latvian people University of Tartu alumni {{Latvia-writer-stub