Pauls Dauge

Pauls Dauge (August 22, 1869 in Sauka Parish – February 9, 1946 in Riga ) was a Latvian dentist, Bolshevik revolutionary activist, writer and publicist.

Born in to the family of a teacher, he was the younger brother of the educator and future minister Aleksandrs Dauge. Dauge formed part of the New Current group of Latvian intellectuals (along with Pēteris Stučka) that advocated Marxist thought. He graduated from the Moscow Dental School in 1897, and went on to study at a dental college in Berlin.

He took part in the October Revolution in Moscow. In 1918 he was named Chief of the Dental Section of the People's Commissariat of Public Health of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic, a position he would hold until 1928. In 1923 he founded the journal Одонтология и стоматология ('Odontology and Dentistry'). In 1928 the Moscow State Scientific and Practical Dentistry Institute was founded, upon the proposal of Dauge. He began research work in Riga and Moscow, and lectured at the Moscow Institute. Dauge became a member of the International Dental Academy based in Washington, DC in 1929, and was named Honorary Member of Vienna Dental Society in 1931. In 1945 he was awarded the Worker of Culture Honour of the Latvian SSR.