Monument of Jakobs Lange
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Jakobs Lange was a Baltic-German pastor, linguist, translator and publicist. He served as a pastor in Smiltene and took a part in preparing the Latvian edition of Bible. He was the author of the first Latvian-German dictionary, founded schools and stood up for education for Latvians.