Background
Eriks Ādamsons was born in Riga on June 22, 1907.
linguist translator writer poet
Eriks Ādamsons was born in Riga on June 22, 1907.
In 1926 he started law studies in Latvian University. He made his first publication in 1924. In the 1930s he fully devoted himself to literature.
Ādamsons also worked as translator (he knew: Russian, German, English and French languages).
In the years of German occupation he worked in book store and also in the lumbering. In those years his health declined, he caught tubercolosis.
In 1943 he started collect materials for book about Latvian painter Kārlis Padegs. This work was never finished.
In 1944 Eriks Ādamsons married widow of Kārlis Padegs, Elvīra Berta Padega, who also suffered from tubercolosis.
In 1945 they had a son Askolds, but he died after few months. In 1946 Ādamsons health declined very fast and he died in Biķernieki sanatorium on February 28, 1946. He is buried at the Rainis Cemetery in Riga.