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Naujoji Romuva
''Naujoji Romuva'' () was a weekly Catholic cultural and arts magazine which was published in Lithuania between 1931 and 1940. Its title was a reference to a Catholic association entitled Romuva. The magazine was one of the most significant publications in the country during its lifetime. History and profile ''Naujoji Romuva'' was started as a weekly magazine in Kaunas in 1931. was both the founder and editor of the magazine which targeted public figures, scholars, teachers, and artists. Soon after its start, the magazine became very popular. Its goal was to present a contemporary version of the Catholic belief. However, its content was secular. It attempted to organize the right-wing intellectuals and to harmonize the relations between the Christian Democrats and the Lithuanian Nationalist Union. ''Naujoji Romuva'' featured not only articles but also rich visual materials to reinforce a conservative approach in Lithuanian art. In addition to the writings of the Lithuanian aut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian exclave, semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.89 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities include Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians who are the titular nation and form the majority of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian. For millennia, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united for the first time by Mindaugas, who formed the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Visuotinė Lietuvių Enciklopedija
The ''Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija'' or VLE () is a 25-volume universal Lithuanian-language encyclopedia published by the Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Institute from 2001 to 2014. VLE is the first published universal encyclopedia in post-Soviet Lithuania (it replaces the former ''Lietuviškoji Tarybinė Enciklopedija'' which was published in thirteen volumes from 1976 to 1985). The last volume, XXV, was published in July 2014. An additional volume of updates, error corrections, and indexes was published in 2015. The encyclopedia's twenty-five volumes contain nearly 122,000 articles and about 25,000 illustrations. Since June 2017, VLE is published as an online encyclopedia being updated to present day. Description VLE is an encyclopedia published in Lithuanian; therefore, it focuses on Lithuania, Lithuanians and Lithuanian topics (Lithuanian personalities, organizations, language, culture, national activities). These articles make up about 20–25% of all articles ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulius Slavėnas
Paulius Slavėnas (21 July 1901 – 24 February 1991) was a Lithuanian astronomer, mathematician, and science historian who headed the Vilnius University Astronomical Observatory twice, from 1944 to 1952, and from 1956 to 1969. Biography Paulius Slavėnas was born on 21 July 1901 in Moscow, the Russian Empire. His father was Vincas Slavėnas (1874–1939), and his mother, Liubovė Kvalkova-Burštein was an accoucher. In 1918, he graduated from the Grigory Shelaputin gymnasium and entered the faculty of physics and mathematics of the Moscow State University. From 1921 to 1923, Slavėnas served in the Red Army. His father returned to Lithuania in 1922 and settled in Marijampolė. After returning to Lithuania himself, Slavėnas continued his studies at the University of Lithuania, from which he graduated in 1925. After receiving a stipend from the Rockefeller Foundation, Slavėnas traveled to the United States. He graduated from Yale University with a doctoral degree in 1928. His do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Balys Sruoga
Balys Sruoga (2 February 1896 – 16 October 1947) was a Lithuanian poet, playwright, critic, and literary theorist. He contributed to cultural journals from his early youth. His works were published by the liberal wing of the Lithuanian cultural movement, and also in various Lithuanian newspapers and other outlets (such as ''Aušrininkai, Aušrinė'', ''Rygos naujienos'' etc.). In 1914, he began studying literature in Saint Petersburg, and later in Moscow, due to World War I and the Russian Revolution. In 1921, he enrolled in the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where in 1924 he received his Ph.D. for a doctoral thesis on the relations between Lithuanian and Slavic folk songs. Sruoga was also the first translator of Anna Akhmatova's poetry, which he likely completed between November 1916 and early 1917. After returning to Lithuania, Sruoga taught at the University of Lithuania, and established a theater seminar that eventually became a course of study. He also wrote vario ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Miltinis
Juozas Miltinis (September 3, 1907 in Akmenė, Lithuania – July 13, 1994 in Panevėžys, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian theatre director, actor and founder of the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre in Panevėžys. Miltinis has brought up a number of actors. Biography From 1932 on, Miltinis studied in Paris, in the school of theatrical art conducted by Charles Dullin. After his return to Kaunas, Miltinis organized here his own theatrical studio and propagated the main tenets of his teachers, Charles Dullin and Jacques Copeau. In 1937-38 he studied in London. The Panevėžys Drama Theatre was founded in 1940 and Miltinis was appointed as its chief art director. The main body of the young theatre was made up from the pupils of this studio. February 15, 1954 he was dismissed from the Theatre directors position for ideological reasons, and returned to the position only in 1959. Miltinis began to implement his ideas that he brought from Paris. New concept of theatre and the hero of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antanas Maceina
Antanas Maceina (27 January 1908 – 27 January 1987) was a Lithuanian philosopher, existentialist, educator, theologian Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of ..., and poet. References 1908 births 1987 deaths Lithuanian Activist Front members People from Prienai District Municipality Lithuanian educators Lithuanian Catholic poets Christian existentialists 20th-century Lithuanian philosophers 20th-century Lithuanian poets {{philosopher-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozapas Albinas Herbačiauskas
Juozapas Albinas Herbačiauskas or Józef Albin Herbaczewski (20 October 1876 – 3 December 1944) was a Polish-Lithuanian identity, Polish-Lithuanian occult writer, poet, literary critic, playwright, publicist and translator. Described as modernist and expressionist in style, Herbačiauskas was one of the pioneers of the essay in Lithuanian literature. Biography Early life Juozas Albinas Herbačiauskas was born on 20 October 1876 in the village of (modern-day Vilkaviškis district) in Congress Poland within the Russian Empire. His father, Kajetonas Herbačiauskas (also spelled Gerbačiauskas, Garbukas) was probably a Polish sacristan. His mother, Marija Magdalena Herbačiauskienė née Linkaitė, was a descendant of the noble Gedgaudai family from Samogitia. Herbačiauskas's family were nobility who originally hailed from Belarus, migrating to the area of Prienai; their nobility status was confirmed on 14 November 1822. Herbačiauskas was a second cousin to Jonas Basanavičius. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liudas Gira
Liudas Gira (27 August 1884 in Vilnius – 1 July 1946 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian poet, writer, and literary critic. His is noted for his early poetry, which resembles traditional Lithuanian folk songs. Gira was active in cultural and political life, gradually shifting towards communism in 1930s. He supported the Soviet Union and helped to transform independent Lithuania into the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic. His son, Vytautas Sirijos Gira, is also a known poet and writer. Biography In 1905, Gira graduated from the Vilnius Theological Seminary, but was not ordained into priesthood. He was active in cultural and political life. Gira participated in the Great Seimas of Vilnius. He was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Populists' Union and one of the leaders of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party. In the aftermath of World War I, Gira joined the Lithuanian army, but was jailed by the Bolsheviks during the Lithuanian–Soviet War for six months. He briefly headed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Grušas
Juozas Grušas (November 16, 1901, Žadžiūnai-Kalniškiai, Kovno Governorate – May 21, 1986, Kaunas) was a Lithuanian writer, editor, dramatist and playwright. Biography Grušas' first inspirational teacher was the Lithuanian poet Jovaras, who taught him writing and spurred his interest in literature. In 1920 he enrolled at the Šiauliai Gymnasium, graduating in 1924. From 1924 to 1931 he was a student at the University of Lithuania (1930 renamed to ''Vytautas Magnus University''), in the Theology-philosophy faculty. In 1928 he was elected as chairman of the student organization Šatrija. After graduating in 1930, he began teaching the Lithuanian language. In 1931, together with Balys Sruoga, he co-founded the Lithuanian writers association; from 1937 to 1938 he was chairman of this organization. Grušas served as editor-in-chief of the Christian weekly newspaper ''Mūsų laikraštis'' (''Our Newspaper'') from 1928 to 1938. In 1935 he published a satirical novel, ''Karjerist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernestas Galvanauskas
Ernestas Galvanauskas (20 November 1882 – 24 July 1967) was a Lithuanian engineer, politician and one of the founders of the Peasant Union (which later merged with the Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union). He also served twice as Prime Minister of Lithuania. Biography Born in Zizonys, Biržai district municipality, in 1882, Galvanauskas completed his secondary education at the Gymnasium of Jelgava, Latvia in 1902. He then took up studies in engineering in St. Petersburg, Russia. He was active in the Russian Revolution of 1905 in Lithuania, and founded the Lithuanian Peasants' Union. Later he was elected as a delegate to the Great Seimas of Vilnius. He was arrested and imprisoned in the Panevėžys Prison, but escaped and with the help of Felicija Bortkevičienė fled abroad. Between 1906 and 1919, he lived first in Finland, then in Liège (Belgium) from 1908, where he completed his studies and received a diploma in mining engineering from the Technical University a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bronė Buivydaitė
Bronė Buivydaitė (Mičiulienė) (8 December 1895 – 29 January 1984) was a Lithuanian teacher, poet, and writer also known under her pen name Tyrų Duktė. Early life and education Bronė Buivydaitė was born on 8 December 1895 in Svėdasai, Lithuania in the family of a small craftsman. In 1900 her parents moved to Anykščiai where she grew up. Buivydaitė graduated from accounting courses in Kaunas in 1912. In 1914, she graduated from a four-grade school in Utena. During the First World War, Buivydaitė went to Russia, where she worked from 1915 to 1918. In 1918, Buivydaitė graduated from a Lithuanian gymnasium in Voronezh. Later life and career From 1918 to 1930, she returned to Lithuania and worked as a teacher of the Lithuanian language in Skoudas, Panevėžys, and Anykščiai. From 1925–1934 Buivydaitė taught at the Panevėžys teachers' seminary, where she gathered a group of drama lovers and directed about 10 stage productions. In 1930, Buivydaitė established ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernardas Brazdžionis
Bernardas Brazdžionis (January 11, 1907 in Stebeikėliai – July 11, 2002 in Los Angeles) was a Lithuanian poet. Bernardas Brazdžionis also used various pen names, such as '' Vytė Nemunėlis'', ''Jaunasis Vaidevutis''. Biography Bernardas Brazdžionis was born in Stebeikėliai in 1907, however, after one year Brazdžionis' family emigrated to United States. Brazdžionis along with his family stayed in the US until 1914 when they returned to Lithuania. Bernardas Brazdžionis finished Biržai gymnasium in 1929, soon after graduation, he enrolled in Vytautas Magnus University, which Brazdžionis finished in 1934. Bernardas Brazdžionis helped to copyread various Lithuanian journals and papers, like ''Ateities spinduliai'', ''Pradalgės''. He also wrote critiques of various books. In 1939 Bernardas Brazdžionis was awarded with the State literature prize for his poetry book ''Kunigaikščių miestas''. In 1944 Bernardas Brazdžionis moved to Germany, where he lived until 194 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
