Pranas Čepėnas (4 April 1899 in Veleikiai,

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– 3 December 1980 in

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) was a

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n historian, encyclopedist, journalist, and lexicographer. In 1926 Čepėnas earned a diploma in history from

University of Lithuania Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) (, VDU) is a public university in Kaunas, Lithuania. The university was founded in 1922 during the Polish–Lithuanian War, interwar period as an alternate national university. Initially it was known as the Univ ...

. He worked as professor of history at

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. During World War II he emigrated to Germany and later to the U.S.

Major works

*Editor of interwar ''Lietuviškoji enciklopedija'' (

Lithuanian Encyclopedia Lithuanian encyclopedias are encyclopedias published in the Lithuanian language or encyclopedias about Lithuania and Lithuania-related topics. The first known attempt to create a Lithuanian encyclopedia was in 1883, when Jonas Jacevičius failed t ...

) and Dictionary of International Words. *''Naujųjų laikų Lietuvos istorija'' vol I and II (1988), *Editor of ''Lietuviškoji enciklopedija'' printed in Boston.

References

External links

Article about his book
in

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magazine 1899 births 1980 deaths People from Zarasai District Municipality People from Novoalexandrovsky Uyezd 20th-century Lithuanian historians Historians of Lithuania Lithuanian encyclopedists Lithuanian lexicographers Lithuanian male writers Vytautas Magnus University alumni Academic staff of Vilnius University 20th-century lexicographers {{Lithuania-historian-stub