Issued to honor Aleksandrs Johans Stenders, the Latvian poet known as "Old Stender," who died in 1794 and is widely credited with laying the foundations of secular Latvian-language literature at a time when written Latvian was almost exclusively the domain of Lutheran clergy producing religious texts. His fables and poetry were among the first works written for Latvians as a reading public rather than a congregation.
Issued to honor Aleksandrs Johans Stenders, the Latvian poet known as "Old Stender," who died in 1794 and is widely credited with laying the foundations of secular Latvian-language literature at a time when written Latvian was almost exclusively the domain of Lutheran clergy producing religious texts. His fables and poetry were among the first works written for Latvians as a reading public rather than a congregation.