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Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas

The authority record describes Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas as Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas studied at Kaunas Priest Seminary and Daugavpils State Gymnasium. The recorded working language is Lithuanian. Employment is recorded with Vytautas Magnus University.

Also recorded as Vaižgantas · Juozas Tumas

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Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas, Lithuanian clergyman, writer

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Identity

Distinctions recorded are Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas and Grand Commander of the Order of the Cross of Vytis.

Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas studied at Kaunas Priest Seminary and Daugavpils State Gymnasium. The recorded working language is Lithuanian.

Employment is recorded with Vytautas Magnus University.

Distinctions recorded are Commander's Grand Cross of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas and Grand Commander of the Order of the Cross of Vytis.

Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas is recorded as newspaper editor, literary critic, teacher, literary historian and writer.

Dated record

Life and career

The full dated record · 2 entries

  1. 1869

    Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas born.

  2. 1933

    Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas died.

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  • Maleišiai

    Birth place

  • Kaunas

    Death place

Literature

Literature

Why Semioticians Love Vaižgantas, or the Never-ending Testing of the Method, Semiotika (Vilniaus universitetas), 2021. Tapatybės virsmo istorija: Vaižganto Pragiedruliai ir 1918–1920 m. konfliktas dėl Vilniaus | The narrative of identity transformation: Vaižgantas’s novel Pragiedruliai and the 1918-1920 conflict over Vilnius, Literatūra (Vilnius), 2006.

  • Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas in the University, Literatūra, 1970

  • Tumas-Vaižgantas, Juozas, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020

  • Tumas-Vaižgantas, Juozas: Dėdes ir dėdienės, Kindlers Literatur Lexikon (KLL), 2020

  • Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas and the Society for Making Lithuania Beautiful, Colloquia, 2020

  • The (Im)Possibility of Comparativism: Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas and Miguel de Unamuno, Colloquia, 2017

  • Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas in the University, Literatūra (Vilnius), 1970

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