Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas

Juozas Tumas, who signed Vaižgantas, was born on 20 September 1869 at Maleišiai. After leaving the seminary of Kaunas, he was ordained priest in 1893 and took part in all the struggles of the national awakening: he edited Tėvynės sargas, a journal printed beyond the borders and smuggled in, circulated the banned press under the Russian Empire, then edited many other periodicals. Rector of the church of Vytautas the Great in Kaunas from 1920, he taught Lithuanian literature at the university from 1922 to 1929, and died in Kaunas on 29 April 1933.

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• NarrativeDėdės ir dėdienėsJuozas Tumas-Vaižgantas · 1920not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain