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Silvestras Valiūnas

Died in 1831

Silvestras Teofilis Valiūnas was born on 11 July 1789 in Paūnikiai, near Raseiniai. In 1812 he completed the senior seminary in Vilnius without being ordained a priest, and the same year enlisted in a Lithuanian regiment of Napoleon's army; after the defeat at Slonim, in October, he returned to Samogitia. Close to Dionizas Poška, he wrote satires, elegies and verse letters in Lithuanian and Polish, and is regarded as one of the country's first Romantic poets. Mobilised during the 1831 uprising, he died that year.

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