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Jonas Aistis

Died in 1973

Jonas Aleksandravičius was born on 7 July 1904 at Kampiškės, near Kaunas, and grew up at Rumšiškės. He studied Lithuanian literature at the University of Kaunas. A ministry scholar at Grenoble from 1936, he never saw his country again: in 1944 he defended a thesis on Provençal translations of the Gospels and worked at the Bibliothèque nationale. Leaving for the United States in 1946, he taught there, took the official name Aistis in 1952 and joined the Library of Congress. He died in Washington on 13 June 1973; his remains were brought back to his country in 2000.

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