Maironis

Jonas Mačiulis, who wrote under the name Maironis, was born on 2 November 1862 at the Pasandravys estate, near Raseiniai. After the Kaunas gymnasium and a semester at the University of Kiev, he entered the Kaunas seminary, then the ecclesiastical academy of Saint Petersburg; ordained a priest in 1891, he taught there afterwards. Rector of the Kaunas seminary from 1909 until his death, he also wrote narrative poems and historical dramas, and revised his only poetry collection throughout his life. He died in Kaunas on 28 June 1932.

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• PoetryPavasario balsaiMaironis · 1895not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain