Tadas Ivanauskas

Tadas Ivanauskas ( born December 16, 1882 in Lebiodka, (now Ljabjodka, Hrodsenskaja Woblasz, Belarus ); † June 1, 1970 in Kaunas ) was a Lithuanian biologist and one of the founders of Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas and the Zoomuseums.

Biography

After high school in Warsaw until 1901 he attended the first school in St. Petersburg, where he also attended the University from 1903. Here he met Lithuanian students and learned the Lithuanian language.

From 1905 to 1909 Ivanauskas visited the Natural History Faculty of the Sorbonne and graduated in 1909. Since 1904 he was a member of the Lithuanian Association Lituania. With the patriotic activists Michał Romans he gave in Paris in 1905 Lectures on Lithuania.

He then visited again until 1910, the University of Saint Petersburg, as foreign diplomas were not recognized in Russia at that time. Here he became chairman of the Lithuanian Student Association.

From 1910, he groomed botanical and zoological exhibits in the laboratory Zootom. 1914 and 1917 he took part in expeditions to the north of Russia and Norway. In 1918 he returned with his wife Honorata back to Lithuania and founded a Lithuanian school.

In 1920 he became a consultant at the Ministry of Agriculture of Lithuania in Kaunas and organized lectures, which led to the founding of the university later. In 1923, he opened with Konstantinas Regelis the botanical garden in Kaunas.

From 1922 to 1956 he was a professor of Lithuanian University in Kaunas. In addition, he held until 1970 lectures at the Medical Institute Kaunas.

In addition to many other achievements, he was known as the founder of one of the first bird Wait Europe in 1929 on Wind Burger Corner. He also founded the zoo in Kaunas in 1938. He has published 37 books and pamphlets, the most famous of which was the book The Birds of Lithuania.