Antanas Baranauskas

Antanas Baranauskas (Latin: Antonius Baranovski, Polish: Antoni Baranowski, born January 17, 1835 in anykščiai, † November 26, 1902 in anykščiai ) was a Lithuanian poet, and in 1897 Bishop of Sejny. He used the pseudonyms Bangputys, Jurksztas Smalaūsis, Jurkštas, Smalaūsis and Barona.

Youth

Baranauskas grew up in modest financial circumstances in the country. Early in his youth, his parents sent him to a local church school. In his diary he described how he got there, 1841-1843 Polish, and later, in 1848-1851, Russian.

His first attempts at writing poetry and rhymes in Lithuanian, was found in his diaries. He later attended a secondary school in Rumšiškės. During this time, his first poems were written in Polish.

Writer in Lithuanian and Polish

In 1853 he finished school and worked as an author in different cities. At this time he met the Lithuanian poet Karolina Praniauskaitė ( Polish: Karolina Proniewska ), a famous writer Lower Lithuania, with whom he shared a passion for the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz. Praniauskaitė suggested Baranauskas plan to write more in Lithuanian.

1856 tried the family Karolina to separate the pair by entering Baranauskas ' promoted in the seminary in Varniai ( which today belongs to Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas). When he was studying there, focused on the evolution of the written Lithuanian books and wrote a commentary on Lithuanian and Samogitian " Apie ir lietuvių Žemaičių Kalba ". This was the first attempt to distinguish these two Lithuanian dialects.

In his time as a seminarian Baranauskas began to write poems in Lithuanian. An early work, written under the influence of Mickiewicz, Anykščių šilelis was. Literary critics consider it a symbolic indication of Lithuanian books. It is said that Baranauskas wrote the poem in anger because his editor Alexander Gabszewicz had said the Lithuanian language is not beautiful enough to write poetry, although historians debate whether it is more of a myth. The poem Laurynas Ivinskis was first in 1861 and again in 1862 published in the Laurynas Ivinskis ' calendars.

His studies from 1858 to 1862 at the Theological Academy of St. Petersburg, he graduated with a Master of Divinity. On 24 March 1862 he was ordained priest. Between 1863 and 1864 he studied at Catholic schools in Munich, Rome, Innsbruck and lions.

In 1871 he worked at the seminary in Kaunas and began to teach the Lithuanian language. He wrote a grammar textbook in Lithuanian. After Baranauskas went to Sejny, he won a considerable reputation, because he was able to preach both in Polish and Lithuanian. He described himself as " gente Lithuanus, natione Polonus " (born Lithuanians, the nationality poles ).

When he realized after 1880 that despite all the promises of the tsarist authorities, the prohibition to print books in Lithuanian, was not lifted, he focused on his translation of the Bible into Lithuanian.

On March 24, 1884 Baranauskas was appointed Titular Bishop of Thespiae and Auxiliary Bishop of Žemaitija. He received his episcopal consecration of the Bishop of Lutsk, Szymon Marcin Kozlowski, on 24 June of the same year.

On August 2, 1897, he was named Pope Leo XIII. Bishop of Sejny.

After he died in anykščiai on 26 November 1902 a monument to him was erected in Sejny.

On January 16, 2014, the asteroid ( 169 568 ) Baranauskas was named after him.

Legacy

Before Baranauskas only were Russian and Polish regarded as cultural languages ​​, while Lithuanian was regarded as backward and rural. Baranauskas was one of the first to use Lithuanian as a literary language, and contributed significantly to the equality of the Lithuanian language and culture.

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