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Antanas Baranauskas

Died in 1902

Antanas Baranauskas was born on 17 January 1835 in Anykščiai. A student at the Varniai seminary, then at the ecclesiastical academy of Saint Petersburg, he continued his studies at Catholic universities in Western Europe and later taught at the Kaunas seminary, where he gave courses in Lithuanian. Appointed bishop of Seinai in 1897, he was the first to preach there in Lithuanian. A linguist, he was among the first to lay the foundations for the study of the dialects of his language; he was also a mathematician. He died in Seinai on 26 November 1902.

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