Alfonsas Eidintas (born 4 January 1952 in Vaiguva,

Kelmė District Municipality Kelmė (; is a city in northwestern Lithuania, a historical region of Samogitia. It has a population of 8,206 and is the administrative center of the Kelmė district municipality. History Kelmė's name may come from the Lithuanian ''kelmynės'' ...

, Lithuania) is a historian, diplomat and novelist. He is Lithuania's Ambassador to Greece.

Scholar

Between 1969 and 1973, Alfonsas Eidintas studied history at

Vilnius Pedagogical University Vytautas Magnus University Education Academy ( lt, Vytauto Didžiojo universiteto Švietimo akademija or VDU ŠA) – an academical unit of Vytautas Magnus University, which specialized in preparing school teachers and other educators. Located i ...

. He went to serve as chief lecturer, docent, head of the Universal History Department, and Deputy Dean at that institution. From 1986 to 1993, he was the Deputy Director for Research at the Lithuanian Institute of History of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He received his habilitation in 1990.

Diplomat

Eidintas entered the diplomatic service in 1993, serving as Lithuania's Ambassador to the United States. He also served as Lithuania's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Canada, Mexico, Norway, Israel, Cyprus, Ethiopia, South Africa and Nigeria. He also worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most recently as ambassador-at-large at the Foreign Ministry's Information and Public Relations Department. He was a lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science.

Author

As of 2009, he had authored 17 books and at least 50 scientific articles about Lithuanian history and politics and published a work of historic fiction, ''Ieškok Maskvos sfinkso'' ("In Search of the Moscow Sphinx").

Books

* Jonas Sliupas: Knyga mokiniams. 1989. * Naujas poziuris i Lietuvos istorija. 1989. * Antanas Smetona: Politines biografijos bruozai. 1990. * Lietuvos Respublikos prezidentai. 1991. * Slaptasis lietuviu diplomatas: istorinis detektyvas. 1992. * Kazys Grinius: Ministras pirmininkas ir prezidentas. 1993 * Lietuviu kolumbai: Lietuviu emigracijos istorijos apybraiza. 1993. * Aleksandras Stulginskis: Lietuvos prezidentas, Gulago kalinys. 1995. * Lietuvos ambasados rūmų Washington, D.C. istorija. 1996. * Lithuania in European Politics: The Years of the First Republic, 1918–1940 (with Vytautas Zalys). 1999. * President of Lithuania: Prisoner of the Gulag-a Biography of

Aleksandras Stulginskis Aleksandras Stulginskis (26 February 1885 – 22 September 1969) was the second President of Lithuania (1920–1926). Stulginskis was also acting President of Lithuania for a few hours later in 1926, following a military coup that was led ...

. 2001. * Žydai, lietuviai ir holokaustas. 2002. * Jews, Lithuanians and the Holocaust. 2003. * Lithuanian Emigration to the United States 1868–1950. 2003. * Ambasadorius = Ambassador: tarnyba savo valstybei svetur: skiriama Lietuvos Respublikos užsienio reikalų ministerijos 85 metų sukakčiai. 2003. * Ieškok Maskvos sfinkso: istorinis romanas. 2006. * Žydai, Izraelis ir palestiniečiai. 2007. * Erelio sparnų dvelksmas: istorinis romanas: "Ieškok Maskvos sfinkso" tęsinys. 2008. * Istorija kaip politika: įvykių raidos apžvalgos. 2008. * Aukštai šaltos žvaigždės: istorinis romanas: "Ieškok Maskvos sfinkso" ir "Erelio sparnų dvelksmo" tęsinys. 2009.

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