en.unionpedia.org

Martynas Jankus, the Glossary

Martynas Jankus or Martin Jankus (7 August 1858 in Bittehnen (Lit.: Bitėnai), near Ragnit – 23 May 1946 in Flensburg, Germany, reburied in Bitėnai cemetery on 30 May 1993) was a Prussian-Lithuanian printer, social activist and publisher in East Prussia, called the Patriarch of Lithuania Minor.^[1]

47 relations: Act of Tilsit, Antanas Kriščiukaitis, Aušra, Ūkininkas, Belarus, Birutė Society, Bitėnai, Bust (sculpture), Council of Lithuania, Dovas Zaunius, East Prussia, Flensburg, Folk songs of Lithuania, Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, Germany, Italy, Jonas Biliūnas, Jonas Smalakys, Kaunas, Klaipėda Region, Kristijonas Donelaitis, Latvia, Lazdynų Pelėda, Lithuania Minor, Lithuania proper, Lithuanian Americans, Lithuanian book smugglers, Lithuanian National Revival, Lithuanian press ban, Nazi Germany, Neman, Russia, Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas, Order of Vytautas the Great, Pen name, Petras Vileišis, Poland, Primary school, Prussian Lithuanians, Russian Empire, Samara Governorate, Siberia, Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Temporary capital of Lithuania, The Seasons (poem), Varpas, Vydūnas, 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania.
Commander's Crosses of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
Lithuania Minor
Lithuanian book smugglers
Lithuanian ethnographers
Members of the Council of Lithuania

Act of Tilsit

The Act of Tilsit (Tilžės aktas) was an act, signed in Tilsit by 24 members of the National Council of Lithuania Minor (Mažosios Lietuvos tautinė taryba) on November 30, 1918. Martynas Jankus and act of Tilsit are Lithuania Minor.

See Martynas Jankus and Act of Tilsit

Antanas Kriščiukaitis

Antanas Kriščiukaitis, also known by the pseudonym Aišbė (24 July 1864 - 30 October 1933) was a Lithuanian writer and judge who served as the chairman of the Supreme Tribunal of Lithuania from 1918 until his death in 1933.

See Martynas Jankus and Antanas Kriščiukaitis

Aušra

Aušra or Auszra (literally: dawn) was the first national Lithuanian newspaper.

See Martynas Jankus and Aušra

Ūkininkas

Ūkininkas or Ukinįkas (literally: The Farmer) was a monthly Lithuanian-language newspaper published during the Lithuanian press ban by the editorial staff of Varpas from 1890 to 1905.

See Martynas Jankus and Ūkininkas

Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

See Martynas Jankus and Belarus

Birutė Society

The Birutė Society was the first cultural non-religious society of Prussian Lithuanians. Martynas Jankus and Birutė Society are Lithuania Minor.

See Martynas Jankus and Birutė Society

Bitėnai

Bitėnai (Bittehnen) is a small village in the Pagėgiai Municipality, in western Lithuania.

See Martynas Jankus and Bitėnai

Bust (sculpture)

A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human body, depicting a person's head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders.

See Martynas Jankus and Bust (sculpture)

Council of Lithuania

In the history of Lithuania, the Council of Lithuania (Lietuvos Taryba; Litauischer Staatsrat; Rada Litewska), after July 11, 1918, the State Council of Lithuania (Lietuvos Valstybės Taryba) was convened at the Vilnius Conference that took place between 18 and 23 September 1917.

See Martynas Jankus and Council of Lithuania

Dovas Zaunius

Dovas Zaunius (19 June 1892 – 22 February 1940) was a Lithuanian lawyer, politician and diplomat who served as Ambassador to Switzerland from 1925 until 1927 and Lithuanian Foreign Minister from 1929 to 1934.

See Martynas Jankus and Dovas Zaunius

East Prussia

East Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1772 to 1829 and again from 1878 (with the Kingdom itself being part of the German Empire from 1871); following World War I it formed part of the Weimar Republic's Free State of Prussia, until 1945.

See Martynas Jankus and East Prussia

Flensburg

Flensburg (Danish and Flensborg; Flensborre; Flansborj) is an independent town in the far north of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein.

See Martynas Jankus and Flensburg

Folk songs of Lithuania

Lithuanian folk songs (in Lithuanian: "liaudies dainos") are often noted for not only their mythological content but also their relating historical events.

See Martynas Jankus and Folk songs of Lithuania

Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė

Gabrielė Petkevičaitė (18 March 1861 – 14 June 1943) was a Lithuanian educator, writer, and activist.

See Martynas Jankus and Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė

Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

See Martynas Jankus and Germany

Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

See Martynas Jankus and Italy

Jonas Biliūnas

Jonas Biliūnas (11 April 1879 – 8 December 1907) was a Lithuanian writer, poet, and a significant contributor to the national awakening of Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

See Martynas Jankus and Jonas Biliūnas

Jonas Smalakys

Jonas Smalakys (1835–1901) was a Prussian Lithuanian landowner, soldier, and the first Prussian Lithuanian to be elected to the Reichstag. Martynas Jankus and Jonas Smalakys are Lithuania Minor.

See Martynas Jankus and Jonas Smalakys

Kaunas

Kaunas (previously known in English as Kovno, also see other names) is the second-largest city in Lithuania after Vilnius, the fourth largest city in the Baltic States and an important centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life.

See Martynas Jankus and Kaunas

Klaipėda Region

The Klaipėda Region (Klaipėdos kraštas) or Memel Territory (Memelland or Memelgebiet) was defined by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles in 1920 and refers to the northernmost part of the German province of East Prussia, when, as Memelland, it was put under the administration of the Entente's Council of Ambassadors. Martynas Jankus and Klaipėda Region are Lithuania Minor.

See Martynas Jankus and Klaipėda Region

Kristijonas Donelaitis

Kristijonas Donelaitis (Christian Donalitius; 1 January 1714 – 18 February 1780) was a Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor. Martynas Jankus and Kristijonas Donelaitis are Lithuania Minor.

See Martynas Jankus and Kristijonas Donelaitis

Latvia

Latvia (Latvija), officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe.

See Martynas Jankus and Latvia

Lazdynų Pelėda

Lazdynų Pelėda (literally: Hazelnut Owl) was the common pen name of two Lithuanian sisters writers: Sofija Ivanauskaitė-Pšibiliauskienė (1867–1926) and Marija Ivanauskaitė-Lastauskienė (1872–1957), who were individually mostly known by their respective marriage names.

See Martynas Jankus and Lazdynų Pelėda

Lithuania Minor

Lithuania Minor (Mažoji Lietuva; Litwa Mniejsza; Ма́лая Литва́; Kleinlitauen), or Prussian Lithuania (Prūsų Lietuva; Litwa Pruska; Preußisch-Litauen), is a historical ethnographic region of Prussia, where Prussian Lithuanians (or Lietuvininkai) lived, now located in Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.

See Martynas Jankus and Lithuania Minor

Lithuania proper

Lithuania proper (Lithuania propria; Tikroji Lietuva, Didžioji Lietuva) refers to a region that existed within the Grand Duchy of Lithuania where the Lithuanian language was spoken.

See Martynas Jankus and Lithuania proper

Lithuanian Americans

Lithuanian Americans (Amerikos lietuviai) refers to American citizens and residents who are Lithuanian and were born in Lithuania, or are of Lithuanian descent.

See Martynas Jankus and Lithuanian Americans

Lithuanian book smugglers

Lithuanian book smugglers or Lithuanian book carriers (knygnešiaĩ, singular: label) smuggled Lithuanian language books printed in the Latin alphabet into Lithuanian-speaking areas of the Russian Empire, defying a ban on such materials in force from 1864 to 1904.

See Martynas Jankus and Lithuanian book smugglers

Lithuanian National Revival

The Lithuanian National Revival, alternatively the Lithuanian National Awakening or Lithuanian nationalism (Lietuvių tautinis atgimimas), was a period of the history of Lithuania in the 19th century, when a major part of Lithuanian-inhabited areas belonged to the Russian Empire (the Russian partition of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth).

See Martynas Jankus and Lithuanian National Revival

Lithuanian press ban

The Lithuanian press ban (spaudos draudimas) was a ban on all Lithuanian language publications printed in the Latin alphabet in force from 1865 to 1904 within the Russian Empire, which controlled Lithuania proper at the time.

See Martynas Jankus and Lithuanian press ban

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany, officially known as the German Reich and later the Greater German Reich, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country, transforming it into a totalitarian dictatorship.

See Martynas Jankus and Nazi Germany

Neman, Russia

Neman (Не́ман; Ragnit; Ragainė), is a town and the administrative center of Nemansky District in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located in the historic region of Lithuania Minor, on the steep southern bank of the Neman River, where it forms the Russian border with the Klaipėda Region in Lithuania, and northeast of Kaliningrad, the administrative center of the oblast. Martynas Jankus and Neman, Russia are Lithuania Minor.

See Martynas Jankus and Neman, Russia

Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

The Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas is the Lithuanian Presidential Award which was re-instituted to honour the citizens of Lithuania for outstanding performance in civil and public offices.

See Martynas Jankus and Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Order of Vytautas the Great

The Order of Vytautas the Great is the Lithuanian Presidential Award.

See Martynas Jankus and Order of Vytautas the Great

Pen name

A pen name is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name.

See Martynas Jankus and Pen name

Petras Vileišis

Petras Vileišis (25 January 1851 – 12 August 1926) was a prominent Lithuanian engineer specializing in the construction of railroad bridges.

See Martynas Jankus and Petras Vileišis

Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

See Martynas Jankus and Poland

Primary school

A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary education of children who are 4 to 10 years of age (and in many cases, 11 years of age).

See Martynas Jankus and Primary school

Prussian Lithuanians

The Prussian Lithuanians, or Lietuvininkai (singular: Lietuvininkas, plural: Lietuvininkai), are Lithuanians, originally Lithuanian language speakers, who formerly inhabited a territory in northeastern East Prussia called Prussian Lithuania, or Lithuania Minor (Prūsų Lietuva, Mažoji Lietuva, Preußisch-Litauen, Kleinlitauen), instead of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and, later, the Republic of Lithuania (Lithuania Major, or Lithuania proper). Martynas Jankus and Prussian Lithuanians are Lithuania Minor.

See Martynas Jankus and Prussian Lithuanians

Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

See Martynas Jankus and Russian Empire

Samara Governorate

Samara Governorate (Samarskaya guberniya) was an administrative-territorial unit (guberniya) of the Russian Empire and the Russian SFSR, located in the Volga Region.

See Martynas Jankus and Samara Governorate

Siberia

Siberia (Sibir') is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east.

See Martynas Jankus and Siberia

Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast

Sovetsk (Сове́тск; Tilsit; Old Prussian: Tilzi; Tilžė) is a town in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania.

See Martynas Jankus and Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast

Temporary capital of Lithuania

The temporary capital of Lithuania (Laikinoji sostinė) was the official designation of the city of Kaunas in Lithuania during the interwar period.

See Martynas Jankus and Temporary capital of Lithuania

The Seasons (poem)

The Seasons (Metai) is the first Lithuanian poem written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775. Martynas Jankus and the Seasons (poem) are Lithuania Minor.

See Martynas Jankus and The Seasons (poem)

Varpas

Varpas (literally: The Bell) was a monthly Lithuanian-language newspaper published during the Lithuanian press ban from January 1889 to December 1905.

See Martynas Jankus and Varpas

Vydūnas

Wilhelm Storost, artistic name Vilius Storostas-Vydūnas (22 March 1868 – 20 February 1953), mostly known as Vydūnas, was a Prussian-Lithuanian teacher, poet, humanist, philosopher and Lithuanian writer, a leader of the Prussian Lithuanian national movement in Lithuania Minor, and one of leaders of the theosophical movement in East Prussia. Martynas Jankus and Vydūnas are Lithuania Minor.

See Martynas Jankus and Vydūnas

1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania

On 20 March 1939, Nazi Germany's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop presented an oral ultimatum to Juozas Urbšys, foreign minister of Lithuania.

See Martynas Jankus and 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martynas_Jankus

Martynas Jankus, the Glossary

Table of Contents

See also

Commander's Crosses of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas

Lithuania Minor

Lithuanian book smugglers

Lithuanian ethnographers

Members of the Council of Lithuania

References