Simonas Stanevičius

Simonas Stanevičius was born on 26 October 1799 at Kanopėnai, near Raseiniai, into a family of the lesser nobility. He attended the Kražiai gymnasium and then Vilnius University, which he left in 1826, and served as librarian to the Counts Plater. In 1829 he published his fables, an eighteenth-century Lithuanian grammar and the first collection of Lithuanian folk songs, whose melodies he gave in 1833. He also studied the mythology of his country, in a work in Polish that remained unfinished, and died on 10 March 1848 at Stemplės.

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• PoetryŠlovė žemaičiųSimonas Stanevičius · 1829not translated into EnglishLiterature