Kazimieras Antanavičius (25 November 1937 – 16 April 1998) was a

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and member of the

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Biography

Antanavičius was born in Balsėnai village, Kretinga district,

on 25 November 1937. In 1959, he graduated with distinction from the Construction Faculty of the

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. In 1968, he started his work at the Vilnius Institute of Engineering Construction, where he would continue working for 20 years. In 1969 he established a laboratory for researching management systems and managed it until 1986. In 1980, he acquired a PhD and became a professor in 1982. In 1986 he joined the

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. Antanavičius was active in establishing

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movement that would eventually lead to independence. He was particularly active in setting the economic policies of Sąjūdis and drafting economic laws. In 1990 he was elected to the

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and was one of the signatories of the

. In the elections in 1992, Antanavičius, a member of

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, was elected as the member of the Sixth Seimas in the single-seat constituency of

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(31). In the parliament, he headed the Economics Committee until resigning in 1994, having gotten disillusioned with the parliamentary work. During his term, he drafted more than a hundred laws and proposals. In 1997, he returned to teaching, lecturing at the

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and working at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Antanavičius died on 16 April 1998.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Antanavicius, Kazimieras 1937 births 1998 deaths People from Kretinga District Municipality Lithuanian economists Academic staff of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University 20th-century economists Members of the Seimas Signatories of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania