Vincas Kudirka

Vincas Kudirka was born on 31 December 1858 at Paežeriai, in Suvalkija. A pupil at the gymnasium of Marijampolė, he studied in Warsaw, where he moved from history to medicine and took his degree in 1889. In the same year he founded the clandestine journal Varpas, which he edited and filled with his own articles for about ten years. A country doctor at Šakiai, then at Naumiestis, he translated Schiller, Byron and Mickiewicz, wrote satires and harmonised folk songs. He died at Naumiestis on 16 November 1899, aged forty.

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• PoetryTautiška giesmėVincas Kudirka · 1898not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain