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Edward Pawłowicz
Edward Pawłowicz (; 30 March 1837 – 1895) was a Polish-Lithuanian identity, Polish-Lithuanian teacher and director of the Private Real school, Real School in Kalisz, as well as a prominent educational activist. Biography He was born in 1837 at the Lapgiriai Manor, in the Lithuanian region of Samogitia, to the Samogitian nobility, Samogitian noble Paulavičiai/Pawłowicz family of the Przyjaciel coat of arms. He was the son of Józef Bernard Pawłowicz, an estate administrator, and Maria née Dokalski. In 1856, he graduated from the gymnasium in Šiauliai and began studying medicine at the University of Moscow, before transferring to the Imperial University of Dorpat, where he pursued studies in mathematics and natural sciences. In 1861, he earned a degree of candidate of sciences and began working as a teacher at the Men's Gymnasium in Kalisz. In 1873, Pawłowicz resigned from his position and founded a private four-grade progymnasium, which was transformed in 1875 into a si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, 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, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, Poland to the south, and the Russian exclave, semi-exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest, with a Maritime boundary, maritime border with Sweden to the west. Lithuania covers an area of , with a population of 2.89 million. Its capital and largest city is Vilnius; other major cities include Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai and Panevėžys. Lithuanians who are the titular nation and form the majority of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of Balts and speak Lithuanian language, Lithuanian. For millennia, the southeastern shores of the Baltic Sea were inhabited by various Balts, Baltic tribes. In the 1230s, Lithuanian lands were united for the first time by Mindaugas, who formed the Kingdom of Lithuania on 6 July ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |