The article is dedicated to Arturs Dumpis, Docent of Latvian State University. A.Dumpis went to scool and began to work in Petersburg and in Murmansk during WWI. In 1927 he began his studies at Latvian University and in order to pay for his studies and to make his living he had to work at several places. He graduated from Faculty of Mechanics of Latvian University in July 1941- the time when the German army occupied Riga. From November 1944 he was a senior lecturer at Faculty of Mechanics of Latvian University. In 1948 A. Dumpis defended his Thesis but the Doctoral degree of Technical Sciences was not acknowledged by the Supreme Diploma Committee of the USSR. In 1950 A.Dupmis presented his Thesis again and in 1951 the degree was acknowledged. In 1953 A.Dumpis received the title of Docent. In 1958 A.Dumpis went abroad in a tourist group and did not returnto Latvia. From 1958 he worked as an engineer in Switzerland but in 1966 moved to South Africa where he continued working as a lecturer and as a scientist at Withwatersrand University in Johannesburg. A.Dumpis died on the 8th October 1982.