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Jonas Biliūnas

Died in 1907

Jonas Biliūnas was born on 11 April 1879 in Niūronys, near Anykščiai. A medical student in Tartu, he was expelled for taking part in the agitation against the tsar, then studied literature in Leipzig and Zurich. Close to the Social Democrats, he wrote in the socialist press before moving away from politics. Ill, he was treated at the sanatorium in Zakopane, where he died on 8 December 1907, aged twenty-eight. His remains were brought back in 1953 to the mound at Liudiškiai, near his native village.

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