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	US Bazaar.com : Encyclopedia Pages : Kristijonas Donelaitis
		Kristijonas Donelaitis was a Prussian-Lithuanian Lutheran pastor and poet.
		In fact, Kristijonas Donelaitis as a person seems to be the farthest echo of the European Renaissance which began in the 14th century Florence and reached this remote outpost of Western Culture only in the 18th century.
		The picturesque vocabulary of Donelaitis is akin to folklore.
	encyclopedia.us-bazaar.com /?title=Kristijonas_Donelaitis (3297 words)

	The Seasons by Kristijonas Donelaitis - About the Author
		Kristijonas was the youngest of the seven children in the Donelaitis family.
		In 1720, Donelaitis' father died and all upkeep and education of the family fell on the mother's shoulders.
		Kristijonas finished the middle school at the age of 22 and entered the University of Königsberg in 1736 as a Lutheran theology student, but also attending, probably on scholarship, the Lithuanian Seminar, founded by Duke Albrecht in the 16th century.
	www.efn.org /~valdas/donelaitis.html (4172 words)

	Kristijonas Donelaitis - WikiLeasing.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		'Kristijonas Donelaitis' was a Lithuanian Lutheran pastor and poet.
		TTe picturesque vocabulary of Donelaitis is akin to folklore.
		Donelaitis never waters down a phrase, nor does he euphemize, but is able to recreate in words the substantiality of the eorld and the speech of the rustics he portrays.
	www.wikileasing.com /10/Kristijonas_Donelaitis.html (3269 words)

	Memorial Museum of Kristijonas Donelaitis (Russia)
		This church was built 200 years ago under the patronage of Donelaitis himself.
		The crypt is set in the place, were archeologists, working on the interior of this church discovered his remains in 1967.
		Memorial Museum of Krisitijonas Donelaitis is the branch of Karaliaučius (Kaliningrad) Museum of History and Ar t.
	www.muziejai.lt /Lietuv_muz_uzsienyje/donelaicio_muz.en.htm (158 words)

	The Medals of Petras Rimsa
		Kristijonas established his See in the pagan Samogition region of Lithuania, but only remained until 1259 when he left for Germany and ended his days in 1270 as a suffragan bishop of Mainz.
		Kristijonas Donelaitis, the first Lithuanian poet to be translated and recognized in histories of European literature.
		Donelaitis died on February 18, 1780, in Tolminkiemis, which is now 15 kilometers southwest of the present Lithuanian border.
	www.albionmich.com /history/histor_notebook/S_Rimsa.shtml (6241 words)

	Homo Novus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is staged by the most famous Lithuanian theatre director Eimuntas Nekrosius, whose performances have travelled all over the world.
		"Seasons" are based on the poetic work by Lithuanian classic Donelaitis about work and life on a farmstead, close ties with the forces of nature and seasonal cycle.
		SEASONS by Kristijonas Donelaitis based on the epic poem by the classic of Lithuanian literature, took place on March 7, 2003 at the National Theatre in Vilnius.
	www.theatre.lv /archive/hn2003/en/programma/www/gadalaiki.php (1004 words)

	The Assertion of Ethnic Identity via Myth and Folklore in Soviet Lithuanian Literature - Bronius Vaskelis
		Pastor Donelaitis was born and lived in East Prussia, where Lithuanians were threatened with the loss of their ethnic character due to the tremendous influx of German colonists.
		Marcinkevičius, in his poem, attempted to depict, as he has stated in an interview, "physical annihilation of a part of the nation and its spiritual immortality." Actually, it is a tragic chant and a combative address to the Lithuanians about the perils of losing their national identity in the face of foreign rulers.
		The most characteristic feature of the poem Donelaitis is that it extols the poet-priest as one who manifests the vital forces of the nation, the one who became also an inseparable part of the Lithuanian nation:
	www.lituanus.org /1973/73_2_02.htm (3153 words)

	Lithuania: Literature - A part of Randburg
		Kristijonas Donelaitis, who wrote in the Prussian countryside during the 18th century, was the professional initiator of Lithuanian literature.
		His poem, Metai (the Seasons), written in hexameters, has been translated into the principal languages of the world and acknowledged as an unparalleled masterpiece.
		"Metai" (Years) by Kristijonas Donelaitis, first book of Lithuanian classical literature, 18th Century.
	www.randburg.com /li/general/general_18.html (730 words)

	LMS IC: Classic Lithuanian Literature Anthology: Kristijonas Donelaitis (about the author) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		LMS IC: Classic Lithuanian Literature Anthology: Kristijonas Donelaitis (about the author)
		Kristijonas Donelaits was one of the most original writers of European Enlightenment, a classic of Lithuanian literature.
		He was born on January 1, 1714, in Lithuania, in a small Lazdynėliai village not far from Gumbinė in a family of free peasants.
	anthology.lms.lt /texts/6/autor.html (300 words)

	Baltic
		Others, in particular Baltramiejus Vilentas, Jonas Bretkunas, and the pastor-poet Kristijonas Donelaitis, also took part in the formation and standardization of a written Lithuanian language in the 16th–18th century in East Prussia.
		Great influence was exerted by the first grammars of Lithuanian, by Danielius Kleinas (1653 and 1654), and the works of Donelaitis (1714–80), the first Lithuanian writer to become well known.
		In the Grand Duchy of Lithuania the first to use Lithuanian as a written language is held to be Mikalojus Daukša (died 1613), who published a catechism in 1595 and a prayer book (Postile) in 1599.
	www.rkp-montreal.org /en/05baltic.html (3519 words)

	June 2001 - Library of Congress Information Bulletin
		Influential speculations on early people in an abstract "state of nature" are represented by a first edition of Rousseau's Du Contrat Social; Hobbes's Leviathan (1651); Locke's Essay on Human Understanding (1690) and a manuscript page from Freud's Totem and Taboo.
		Epics and myths of beginnings include a modern edition of Metai (The Seasons) by the most important Lithuanian poet of the 18th century, Kristijonas Donelaitis (1714-1780); the Georgian epic Vep'xistqaosani (The Knight in the Panther Skin), composed by Shjota Rustaveli in the 12th-13th centuries; the Codex Mendoza (ca.
		A manuscript map commissioned by Emperor Haile Selassie (1892-1975), complete with hand-illuminated photographs of himself, is also on display.
	www.loc.gov /loc/lcib/0106/world_treasures.html (1195 words)

	There Is No Ithaca -- Foreword by Czeslaw Milosz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Distance in space and awareness that borders with their barbed wire separated him from his country allowed a young Lithuanian to write his Idylls.
		In a way his poems follow the model of a poem on the four seasons, The Year, by an eighteenth century Lithuanian poet, Kristijonas Donelaitis.
		Yet they have the warmth of the direct recollections of the author's childhood and adolescence in the house of his parents.
	www.motley-focus.com /mekasintro.html (394 words)

	Selected Anti-Semitic Incidents Around the World in 2002
		Although local authorities suggested that the damage was due to the long-term decay of the synagogue, the Jewish community believes that the cemetery was vandalized.
		April 20, 2002 - Siauliai - On this anniversary of Hitler's birthday, swastikas were found painted on almost all of the gravestones of Jews in Kristijonas Donelaitis cemetary.
		April 3 - 4, 2002 - Mexico City - During a demonstration by members of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation outside the Israeli embassy, protesters drew swastikas and anti-Semitic graffiti on the road and on cement blocks.
	www.adl.org /Anti_semitism/anti-semitism_global_incidents.asp (3989 words)

	Excite - Travel Guide - History & Culture
		The movement works towards rekindling Lithuania's ancient spiritual and folklore traditions.
		The first major fiction in Lithuanian was the poem Metai (The Seasons), by Kristijonas Donelaitis, describing the life of serfs in the 18th century.
		Jonas Maciulis, known as Maironis, is regarded as the founder of modern Lithuanian literature thanks to the poetry he wrote around the beginning of the 20th century.
	www1.excite.com /travel/travelguide/history/0,20310,europe-453,00.html (1410 words)

	The Drunken Boat Winter 2002
		Even in his worst moments of alcoholism Sirvys could scribble a perfect poem onto a napkin for a drink in any bar.
		The written poetic tradition in Lithuanian began in the eighteenth century with the epic work The Seasons by the poet/priest Kristijonas Donelaitis.
		Prior to Donelaitis, Lithuanian poets wrote either in Polish or in Latin, while a poetic folk song tradition flourished independently in the four major Lithuanian dialects.
	www.thedrunkenboat.com /nation.html (4479 words)

	Office of the Illinois Attorney General - Press Release - Stropus Named Director of Recruitment & Professional ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		She is the daughter of Vladas and Aldona Stropus, both of whom were active in the Lithuanian Opera Company of Chicago.
		She attended Kristijonas Donelaitis Lithuanian School and participated in Grandis folk dance troupe and the Lithuanian Opera's youth choir.
		Since establishing a regional office for McDermott, Will and Emery, Stropus' connection to Lithuania has continued.
	www.ag.state.il.us /pressroom/2004_10/20041018.html (286 words)

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