Vaclovas Biržiška

Vaclovas Biržiška ( born December 2, 1884 in Viekšniai at Mažeikiai; † 3 January 1956 in Waterbury, Connecticut ) was a Lithuanian lawyer and scientist who worked in particular in the field of Lithuanian written material. He was the brother of Mykolas Biržiška and Viktoras Biržiška.

Life

Vaclovas Biržiška learned from 1895 to 1903, on Julius Janonis Šiauliai gymnasium and studied afterwards Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of St. Petersburg, but soon switched to law, history and ethnography. In 1909 he finished his studies as a lawyer.

Until the First World War Vaclovas Biržiška worked as a lawyer in Vilnius and Šiauliai. During the war he served until 1917 as an officer in the tsarist army. 1920 to 1923 he served in the Lithuanian army in various positions. Growing academic tasks made ​​him the Denst in the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel Acknowledge.

From 1920 he taught at the predecessor institutions of today Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas law, history and bibliography, from 1924 as a professor and from 1930 as a full professor. 1933 to 1935 he was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities.

1944 Biržiška fled from the advancing Red Army to the west. 1946 to 1949 he worked at the Baltic University in Hamburg. In the U.S., he was from 1951 to 1953 Consultant to the Library of Congress.