Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša (May 1836 1890) was a

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n poet, translator, participant of 1863 Uprising. Born in

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, Daukša studied in the local gymnasium, later in

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. He enrolled in the University of Moscow, and later moved to the

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. Until 1860 he studied

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at the

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. From 1861 he lived in

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, and participated in 1863 Uprising. For participating in the uprising he was sentenced to sixteen years of

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. Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša translated numerous works of

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, George Gordon Byron and others. He wrote a grammar of the

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''Trumpa kalbmokslė liežuvio lietuviško'' (around 1856).Archivum Lithuanicum5, 2003 p. 247

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