Jonas Basanavičius

Jonas Basanavičius was born on 23 November 1851 in Ožkabaliai, into a peasant family. After the gymnasium in Marijampolė, he studied history and then medicine in Moscow, and in 1879 left for Bulgaria, where he practised until 1905 and became physician to Prince Ferdinand. In 1883 he prepared the first issues of Aušra, printed in East Prussia, was behind the Great Seimas of Vilnius in 1905, founded the Lithuanian Scientific Society in 1907 and signed the act of independence of 1918. Regarded as the patriarch of the nation, he died in Vilnius on 16 February 1927.

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• TaleLietuviškos pasakosJonas Basanavičius · 1898not translated into EnglishLiterature