Reinis Kaudzīte

Reinis Kaudzīte (Old orthography: Reinis Kaudsit; May 12, 1839 – August 21, 1920), was a Latvian schoolteacher and writer. His novel Mērnieku laiki (Time of the Surveyors) was the first novel written in Latvian, coauthored with his brother Matīss Kaudzīte in 1879.

Reinis Kaudzīte was born in Mādari, Vecpiebalga Parish, in the heart of Vidzeme. He did not attend school himself, but he became a teacher of geography and religion classes at the Kalna Kaibēni parish school at the age of 28.