Pranas Dovydaitis

Pranas Dovydaitis.

Pranas Dovydaitis pronunciation (2 December 1886 in Runkiai – 4 November 1942 in Sverdlovsk, RSFSR) was a Lithuanian politician, Prime Minister of Lithuania, teacher, encyclopedist, editor, and professor.

Biography

Pranas Dovydaitis was born in Marijampolė County, Runkiai and attended Veiveriai Teachers' Seminary, later studied in the University of Moscow. In 1913 he became an editor of a newspaper "Viltis" in Vilnius. It was closed in 1915 and Dovydaitis went to Kaunas where he started to participate actively in its academic circles and from 1922 to 1940 was a professor in the University of Lithuania (now - Vytautas Magnus University). The range of topics of his articles was quite wide - religious science, philosophy and natural science, but in all his articles some synoptical-historical interest could be found. The topics of primitive man and culture were one of his priorities. He was a Signatory of the Act of Independence of Lithuania. After the soviet occupation of Lithuania Dovydaitis was arrested in 1941 with his family and sent to one of the Soviet concentration camps in the northern Ural. His remains have not yet been found. Dovydaitis was a member and one of the founders of the Catholic youth and student organization Ateitis in Lithuania which is now a full member of Fimcap.

Family

Pranas Dovydaitis was the eldest of 15 children in his family. His wife - Marcelė Bucevičiūtė-Dovydaitienė. They had three sons and two daughters.

References

"Dovydaitis, Pranas". Encyclopedia Lituanica II: 101-103. (1970-1978). Ed. Simas Sužiedėlis. Boston, Massachusetts: Juozas Kapočius. LCC 74-114275.
"Žemaičių Krikšto Pėdsakais", 2013, Lietuvių Katalikų Mokslo Akademija, UDK 23/28(474.5)(091)(036)

Preceded by Mykolas Sleževičius	Prime Minister of Lithuania 12 March 1919 – 12 April 1919	Succeeded by Mykolas Sleževičius

Prime Ministers of Lithuania

1918–1940	Augustinas Voldemaras Mykolas Sleževičius Pranas Dovydaitis Mykolas Sleževičius Ernestas Galvanauskas Kazys Grinius Ernestas Galvanauskas Antanas Tumėnas Vytautas Petrulis Leonas Bistras Mykolas Sleževičius Augustinas Voldemaras Juozas Tūbelis Vladas Mironas Jonas Černius Antanas Merkys

Lithuanian SSR	Mečislovas Gedvilas Motiejus Šumauskas Juozas Maniušis Ringaudas Songaila Vytautas Sakalauskas

since 1990	Kazimira Prunskienė Albertas Šimėnas Gediminas Vagnorius Aleksandras Abišala Bronislovas Lubys Adolfas Šleževičius Laurynas Stankevičius Gediminas Vagnorius Irena Degutienė Rolandas Paksas Irena Degutienė Andrius Kubilius Rolandas Paksas Eugenijus Gentvilas Algirdas Brazauskas Zigmantas Balčytis Gediminas Kirkilas Andrius Kubilius Algirdas Butkevičius Saulius Skvernelis

Italics indicate acting Prime Ministers

Council of Lithuania

Act of Independence

Members	Saliamonas Banaitis Jonas Basanavičius Mykolas Biržiška Kazys Bizauskas Pranas Dovydaitis Steponas Kairys Petras Klimas Donatas Malinauskas Vladas Mironas Stanisław Narutowicz Alfonsas Petrulis Antanas Smetona Jonas Smilgevičius Justinas Staugaitis Aleksandras Stulginskis Jurgis Šaulys Kazimieras Steponas Šaulys Jokūbas Šernas Jonas Vailokaitis Jonas Vileišis

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 72192234 GND: 118879855

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