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Jokūbas
Jokūbas is a Lithuanian masculine given name. It is a cognate of the given names Jacob and James and may refer to: *Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša (1836–1890), Lithuanian poet, translator, participant of 1863 Uprising *Jokūbas Gintvainis (born 1994), Lithuanian basketball player *Jokūbas Minkevičius (1921–1996), Lithuanian politician *Jokūbas Šernas Jokūbas Šernas (14 June 1888 – 31 July 1926) was a Lithuanian attorney, journalist, teacher and banker, one of the twenty signatories to the Act of Independence of Lithuania. Born in Biržai, he studied law at the University of St. Petersb ... (1888–1926), Lithuanian attorney, journalist, teacher, and banker * Jokūbas Smuškevičius (1902–1941), Soviet-Lithuanian Commander of the Soviet Air Force * Jokūbas Vygodskis (aka, Jakub Wygodzki) (1856–1941), Polish–Lithuanian Jewish politician, Zionist activist, and a medical doctor References {{given name Lithuanian masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokūbas Gintvainis
Jokūbas Gintvainis (born 25 July 1994) is a professional Lithuanian basketball player for Nevėžis Kėdaniai of the Lithuanian Basketball League. He plays for point guard and shooting guard positions. International career Gintvainis won silver medal while representing the Lithuanian U-16 National Team during the 2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship The 2010 FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship was the 24th edition of the FIBA Europe Under-16 Championship. 16 teams featured the competition, held in Montenegro from August 5–15. Spain was the defending champion. This year's edition was won by Cro .... References External linksJokubas Gintvainisat fiba.com 1994 births Living people Bàsquet Manresa players BC Lietkabelis players BC Nevėžis players BC Pieno žvaigždės players CB Peñas Huesca players Liga ACB players Lithuanian expatriate basketball people in Spain Lithuanian men's basketball players Point guards Science City Jena players Shooting guards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokūbas Šernas
Jokūbas Šernas (14 June 1888 – 31 July 1926) was a Lithuanian attorney, journalist, teacher and banker, one of the twenty signatories to the Act of Independence of Lithuania. Born in Biržai, he studied law at the University of St. Petersburg, graduating in 1914. After he returned to Lithuania, he worked in Vilnius for various political causes centering on independence and taught at the Vilnius Gymnasium, as well as editing ''Lietuvos žinios'' (Lithuanian News). He helped organize the Vilnius Conference and was elected to the Council of Lithuania, signing the Act in 1918. After independence Šernas served in the organizations working to establish democratic institutions in the new state, including the Ministry of the Interior. He founded and edited the journal ''Savivaldybės'' (Self Government) and was appointed director of the Commerce and Industry Bank. He was the father of the actor Jacques Sernas but died in Kaunas in 1926, only a year after his son was born in 1925. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša
Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša (May 1836 1890) was a Lithuanian poet, translator, participant of 1863 Uprising. Biography Edvardas Daukša was born in Biržai and studied in the local gymnasium, later in Slutsk. He enrolled in the University of Moscow, and later moved to the University of Tartu. Until 1860 he studied philology at the University of Königsberg. From 1861 he lived in Vilnius, and participated in 1863 Uprising. For participating in the uprising he was sentenced to sixteen years of penal labour. Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša translated numerous works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Gordon Byron and others. He wrote a grammar of the 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 millio ... ''Trumpa kalbmokslė liežuvio lietuviško'' (around 1856).Archivum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania (; lt, Lietuva ), officially the Republic of Lithuania ( lt, Lietuvos Respublika, links=no ), is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea. Lithuania shares land borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and Russia to the southwest. It has a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west on the Baltic Sea. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.8 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities are Kaunas and Klaipėda. Lithuanians belong to the ethno-linguistic group of the Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian, one of only a few living Baltic languages. For millennia the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united by Mindaugas, Monarchy of Lithuania, becoming king and founding the Kingdom of Lithuania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob (name)
Jacob is a common male given name and a less well-known surname. It is a cognate of James, derived from Late Latin ''Iacobus'', from Greek ''Iakobos'', from Hebrew (''Yaʿaqōḇ''), the name of the Hebrew patriarch, Jacob son of Isaac and Rebecca. The name comes either from the Hebrew root ''ʿqb'' meaning "to follow, to be behind" but also "to supplant, circumvent, assail, overreach", or from the word for "heel", ''ʿaqeb''. It can also be taken to mean "may God protect." In the narrative of Genesis, it refers to the circumstances of Jacob's birth when he held on to the heel of his older twin brother Esau (Genesis 25:26). The name is etymologized (in a direct speech by the character Esau) in Genesis 27:36, adding the significance of Jacob having "supplanted" his elder brother by buying his birthright. In a Christian context, Jacob – ''James'' in English form – is the name for several people in the New Testament: (1) the apostle James, son of Zebedee, (2) another apost ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James (name)
James is an English language given name of Hebrew origin, most commonly used for males. Etymology It is a modern descendant, through Old French ''James'', of Vulgar Latin ''Iacomus'' (cf. Italian ''Giacomo (name), Giacomo'', Portuguese ''Tiago'', Spanish ''Santiago_(name), Iago, Santiago''), a derivative version of Latin ''Iacobus'', Latin form of the Hebrew language, Hebrew name Jacob (name), ''Jacob'' (original Hebrew: יעקב). The final ''-s'' in the English first names is typical of those borrowed from Old French, where it was the former masculine subject case (cf. Giles (other), Giles, Miles (name), Miles, Charles, etc.). James is a very popular name in English-speaking populations. Since in Spanish and its derivatives the J is pronounced (Kh), many Jews used this name for representing the Hebrew name of Haim, also written as Chaim (pronounced ) or its similar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jokūbas Minkevičius
Jokūbas Minkevičius (27 March 19215 May 1996) was a Lithuanian politician, born in Ufa, Bashkir ASSR. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania The Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania or Act of March 11 ( lt, Aktas dėl Lietuvos nepriklausomos valstybės atstatymo) was an independence declaration by Lithuania adopted on March 11, 1990, signed by all members of the S .... References 1921 births 1996 deaths Politicians from Ufa Members of the Seimas 20th-century Lithuanian philosophers Soviet politicians {{Lithuania-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakub Wygodzki
Jakub Wygodzki (18561941; lt, Jokūbas Vygodskis, he, יעקב ויגודסקי) was a Polish–Lithuanian Jewish politician, Zionist activist and a medical doctor. He was one of the most prominent Jewish activists in Vilnius (Vilna, Wilno). Educated as a doctor in Russia and Western Europe, he established his gynecology and pediatric practice in 1884. In 1905, he was one of the founding members of the Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets) in Vilnius Region. In 1918, he was co-opted to the Council of Lithuania and briefly served as the first Lithuanian Minister for Jewish Affairs. After Vilnius was captured by Poland, Wygodzki was elected to the Polish parliament (Sejm) in 1922 and 1928. He died in the Lukiškės Prison during the first months of the German occupation of Lithuania during World War II. Biography Wygodzki was born to a family of Hasidic Jews. His family moved to Vilnius (Vilna, Wilno) in 1860 where his father was a merchant, supplying the local garrison of the ... [...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] |
Given Name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a family or clan) who have a common surname. The term ''given name'' refers to a name usually bestowed at or close to the time of birth, usually by the parents of the newborn. A ''Christian name'' is the first name which is given at baptism, in Christian custom. In informal situations, given names are often used in a familiar and friendly manner. In more formal situations, a person's surname is more commonly used. The idioms 'on a first-name basis' and 'being on first-name terms' refer to the familiarity inherent in addressing someone by their given name. By contrast, a surname (also known as a family name, last name, or ''gentile name, gentile'' name) is normally inherited and shared with other members of one's immediate family. Regnal names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob
Jacob (; ; ar, يَعْقُوب, Yaʿqūb; gr, Ἰακώβ, Iakṓb), later given the name Israel, is regarded as a patriarch of the Israelites and is an important figure in Abrahamic religions, such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Jacob first appears in the Book of Genesis, where he is described as the son of Isaac and Rebecca, and the grandson of Abraham, Sarah, and Bethuel. According to the biblical account, he was the second-born of Isaac's children, the elder being Jacob's fraternal twin brother, Esau. Jacob is said to have bought Esau's birthright and, with his mother's help, deceived his aging father to bless him instead of Esau. Later in the narrative, following a severe drought in his homeland of Canaan, Jacob and his descendants, with the help of his son Joseph (who had become a confidant of the pharaoh), moved to Egypt where Jacob died at the age of 147. He is supposed to have been buried in the Cave of Machpelah. Jacob had twelve sons through four ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yakov Smushkevich
russian: Яков Вульфович Смушкевич , nickname = General Douglas , birth_date= , death_date= , birth_place=Rokiškis, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire , death_place=Barbysh, Kuibyshev oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union , allegiance= , branch= Soviet Air Force , serviceyears=1918 1941 , rank=General-Lieutenant of Aviation , commands=Soviet Air Force , battles= Russian Civil WarPolish–Soviet WarSpanish Civil WarBattle of Khalkhin Gol , awards=Hero of the Soviet Union (twice) , spouse=Basia Solomonovna , signature=Sign of Yakov Smushkevich.png Yakov Vladimirovich Smushkevich ( Lithuanian: Jakovas Smuškevičius, russian: Яков Владимирович Смушкевич, also Яков Вульфович Смушкевич,; – 28 October 1941) was the Commander of the Soviet Air Forces from 1939 to 1940 and the first Jewish Hero of the Soviet Union. Arrested shortly before the start of Operation Barbarossa on falsified charges of being part of an anti- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
