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Juozas Kapočius
Juozas is a Lithuanian masculine given name, a shortened version of Juozapas, which in turn is the equivalent of English ''Joseph''. List of people named Juozas *Juozas Adomaitis-Šernas (1859–1922), Lithuanian scientific writer and book smuggler during the Lithuanian press ban * Juozas Ambrazevičius (1903–1974), Lithuanian literary historian, better known for his political career and nationalistic views * Juozas Bagdonas (1911–2005), Lithuanian painter *Juozas Balčikonis (1885–1969), Lithuanian linguist and teacher, who helped standardize the Lithuanian language *Juozas Barzda-Bradauskas (1896–1953), Lithuanian Army brigadier genera *Juozas Bernatonis (born 1953), Lithuanian jurist and politician * Juozas Bernotas (born 1989), Lithuanian windsurfer *Juozas Budraitis (born 1940), Soviet and Lithuanian actor *Juozas Dringelis (born 1935), Lithuanian politician *Juozas Gabrys (1880–1951), Lithuanian politician and diplomat * Juozas Girnius (1915–1994), Lithuanian phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuanian Language
Lithuanian ( ) is an Eastern Baltic language belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European language family. It is the official language of Lithuania and one of the official languages of the European Union. There are about 2.8 million native Lithuanian speakers in Lithuania and about 200,000 speakers elsewhere. Lithuanian is closely related to the neighbouring Latvian language. It is written in a Latin script. It is said to be the most conservative of the existing Indo-European languages, retaining features of the Proto-Indo-European language that had disappeared through development from other descendant languages. History Among Indo-European languages, Lithuanian is conservative in some aspects of its grammar and phonology, retaining archaic features otherwise found only in ancient languages such as Sanskrit (particularly its early form, Vedic Sanskrit) or Ancient Greek. For this reason, it is an important source for the reconstruction of the Proto-Indo-Euro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Imbrasas
Juozas Imbrasas (born 8 January 1941 in Algirdai, Ukmergė district municipality) is the former mayor of Vilnius, Lithuania. He is a member of the political party Order and Justice. Controversy In 2007 Imbrasas came to international attention for banning a gay rights Rights affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people vary greatly by country or jurisdiction—encompassing everything from the legal recognition of same-sex marriage to the death penalty for homosexuality. Notably, , 3 ... rally on the basis of 'safety concerns' due to building works. No alternative site for the rally was proposed leading to accusations of discrimination. References 1941 births Living people People from Ukmergė District Municipality Mayors of Vilnius Order and Justice politicians Order and Justice MEPs MEPs for Lithuania 2009–2014 Members of the Seimas {{Lithuania-MEP-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Miltinis
Juozas Miltinis (September 3, 1907 in Akmenė, Lithuania – July 13, 1994 in Panevėžys, Lithuania) was a Lithuanian theatre director, actor and founder of the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theatre in Panevėžys. Miltinis has brought up a number of actors. Biography From 1932 on, Miltinis studied in Paris, in the school of theatrical art conducted by Charles Dullin. After his return to Kaunas, Miltinis organized here his own theatrical studio and propagated the main tenets of his teachers, Charles Dullin and Jacques Copeau. In 1937-38 he studied in London. The Panevėžys Drama Theatre was founded in 1940 and Miltinis was appointed as its chief art director. The main body of the young theatre was made up from the pupils of this studio. February 15, 1954 he was dismissed from the Theatre directors position for ideological reasons, and returned to the position only in 1959. Miltinis began to implement his ideas that he brought from Paris. New concept of theatre and the hero of the pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Maniušis
Juozas Maniušis ( in Mogilev Governorate – 17 March 1987 in Vilnius) was a communist politician in the Lithuanian SSR specializing in areas of industry, construction, and engineering. Between 1967 and 1981 he was chairman of the Council of Ministers (equivalent to Prime Minister). He earned PhD in economics in 1970. Maniušis graduated from a pedagogic institute in Minsk in 1931 and from a road building institute in Leningrad in 1938. During World War II he served in the Red Army, joining the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1945. After the war he moved to Lithuania where he worked as deputy chairman of Vilnius and chairman of Kaunas committees of the Lithuanian Communist Party (1944–1950). Between 1950 and 1955, he was Minister of Construction. From 1955 to 1967 he worked as Secretary of the Central Committee of the Lithuanian Communist Party. In 1967 he became the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Lithuanian SSR, Council of Ministers. He was one of the very fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Lukša
Juozas Lukša (10 August 1921 – 4 September 1951), also known among other pseudonyms as Daumantas and Skirmantas, was a leader of the anti-Soviet Anti-Sovietism, anti-Soviet sentiment, called by Soviet authorities ''antisovetchina'' (russian: антисоветчина), refers to persons and activities actually or allegedly aimed against the Soviet Union or government power within the ... Lithuanian partisans, Lithuanian partisan armed resistance movement. Life Lukša was born on 10 August 1921 to a family of farmers in the village of Juodbūdis, near Kaunas. He attended , where he joined the catholic youth organization Ateitis and the far-right, anti-semitic and anti-Soviet Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF). He graduated high school in 1940 and began studying architecture at Vytautas Magnus University. Due to being a member of the LAF, Lukša was imprisoned by the NKVD in Kaunas during the 1940–41 Soviet Union, Soviet Soviet occupation of the Baltic states (1940), occ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Lebednykas
Juozas Lebednykas is a Lithuanian artist and sculptor. The art critic Virginijus Kinčinaitis said of his work: Biography Juozas Lebednykas was born in 1947 in Dusmenys Village, Lithuania. From 1966 to 1972 he studied sculpture at the State Institute of Art (in 1989 renamed to Vilnius Academy of Art). His tutors were Bronius Vyšniauskas, Gediminas Jokūbonis and Konstantinas Bogdanas. After graduation, from 1972 to 1973 he worked at the Vilnius Monument Restoration Institute and served in the army. Since 1973 he has lived and worked in Panevėžys. From 1974 to 1987 he worked as a teacher of art at the Panevėžys art school. He has been a member of the Lithuanian Artists' Union since 1975. During the period from 1989 to 1993 he was elected chairman of the Panevėžys branch of the Lithuanian Artists' Union. He created numerous copper sheet reliefs and sculptures for interior and exterior as commissioned by the public institutions, as well as small sculpture and ceramic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Kralikauskas
Juozas Kralikauskas (October 22, 1910 – February 25, 2007 in Vilnius, Lithuania) was a novelist and short story author. Biography Kralikauskas graduated from the seminary in Kaunas in 1928. After spending some years teaching, he attended a military academy and Vytautas Magnus University, graduating from the latter with a degree in the humanities in 1940. In 1944 he moved to Ontario, Canada, and worked in the Pickle Lake gold mines. He returned to Lithuania in 1994. Work His literary debut was made in 1937 with the short story ''Septyni kalavijai'' (Seven Swords). His next work, ''Urviniai žmonės'' (Cave People), did not appear until 1954. His literary output from then until his death consisted of historical fiction dramatizing the lives of Mindaugas, Vaišvilkas Vaišvilkas or Vaišelga (also spelled as ''Vaišvila'', ''Vojszalak'', ''Vojšalk'', ''Vaišalgas''; killed on 18 April 1267) was the Grand Duke of Lithuania (1264–1267). He was son of Mindaugas, the first an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Kazickas
Juozas Petras Kazickas or Joseph P. Kazickas (April 16, 1918 – July 9, 2014) was a Lithuanian-American businessman, self-made multi-millionaire and philanthropist. With assets estimated worth over 3 billion litas, he was considered to be the wealthiest Lithuanian in 2006. Early life Kazickas' grandparents, due to their involvement in the Uprising of 1863, were deported to interior of Russia, where he was born in Chernaya Padina, Saratov Oblast. The family returned to Lithuania in 1922. Kazickas studied economics at Vytautas Magnus University (1937–1940) and Vilnius University (1941–1942). In Vilnius he worked at Vilnius municipality and was involved in resistance movements. In 1944, as Soviet Union was winning the war against Nazi Germany, he retreated to Germany, where he lived in displaced person camps and attended University of Tübingen. In 1947, he was admitted on a scholarship to post-graduate program at Yale University. In 1951, Kazickas defended his thesis about sovie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Karvelis
Juozas Karvelis (April 18, 1934 – April 12, 2018) was a Lithuanian politician. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. Biography After attending school in Inkakliai from 1942 to 1944 and then in Švėkšna, near Šilutė, in 1949–50, he studied at the Lithuanian Maritime Academy in Klaipėda from 1952 to 1954, continuing his studies at the Naval College of Murmansk. Karvelis studied at the University of Vilnius in 1960–63. He worked in Murmansk in 1954–58, and then in Klaipėda since 1959. He was Second Assistant to the Head of the Lithuanian Maritime Transport and Captain. He worked as a maritime captain at the trade port in Klaipėda in 1986–90. A member of Sąjūdis Sąjūdis (, "Movement"), initially known as the Reform Movement of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Persitvarkymo Sąjūdis), is the political organisation which led the struggle for Lithuanian independence in the late 1980s and early 1990s. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Kaminskas
Juozas Kaminskas (1898–1957) was a Lithuanian painter.Algimantas Miškinis, "Juozas Kaminskas". In: ''Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia'', T. X (Khmerai-Krelle). – Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2006. See also *List of Lithuanian painters A list of notable Lithuanian artists. __NOTOC__ A * Kazys Abromavičius (b. 1928) * Gediminas Akstinas (b. 1961) * Romualdas Aleliūnas (1960-2016) * Zita Alinskaitė-Mickonienė (b. 1939) *Viktoras Andriušis (1908-1967) * Aleksas Andriuškevi ... References 1898 births 1957 deaths 20th-century Lithuanian painters {{Lithuania-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Kamarauskas
Juozas Kamarauskas (1874–1946) was a Lithuanian Painting, painter. See also *List of Lithuanian painters References *Universal Lithuanian Encyclopedia External links 1874 births 1946 deaths People from Širvintos District Municipality People from Kovno Governorate 20th-century Lithuanian painters Burials at Antakalnis Cemetery {{Lithuania-painter-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juozas Kalinauskas
Juozas Kalinauskas (born January 24, 1935) is a Lithuanian sculptor and medalist. Biography He graduated from Vistycio middle school in 1950 and then from 1950 to 1955 Studied in Stepas Zukas art school in Kaunas. From 1955 to 1961 he studied in Lithuanian State Art Institute Vilnius, and graduated with diploma of a sculptor. Since 1962 he has been a member of Lithuanian Artist's Association. From 1962 to 1970 he was art director of the magazine Vilnius fashion house "Banga". In 1985 he was granted an honorary name of merited artist. * 1996 Member of International federation of medals FIDEM. * 2006 Member of medalist association AIAM in Rome. * Participating in exhibitions since 1960. Art work Sculpture * 1960 "Sokejele" high relief, music theatre in Kaunas; * 1961 "Rest" reljef, drill factory in Vilniaus; * 1964–1965 "After work" bas-relief, gesso 46x101cm, Museum of fine arts in Vilnius; * 1965 "In sauna" embossed copper, 50x100cm, Museum of fine arts in Moscow; * 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
