Senoji Lietuvos literatūra
type: channel
description: Early Lithuanian Literature (Senoji Lietuvos literatūra) is a biannual peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore. This academic periodical has been edited by the Department of Early Literature of the Institute since 1992.
publisher: The Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore / Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas
language: en
publication name: Senoji Lietuvos literatūra
issn: 1822-3656
items: Chronicle
items: Annotations
items: Donelaitis’s Translator Was a Poet!
items: Miks Stolperjons, a Satirical Poem from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
items: Miks Stolperjons, a Satire in Verse (the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century): The Manuscript and Two Publications in the Lithuanian Press
items: I Wrote to the Quandt Family and Their Descendants in 1756. Genealogy of the Family Published in the Obituary for Quandt (1772)
items: Genealogy of the Prussian Line of the Quandt Family Written by Johann Jacob Quandt, the Last Bearer of the Surname
items: Recommendation of Heinrich Tilesius, the Rector of the Tilsit Provincial School, to His Pupil Johann Schultz
items: Publications of Fiction Texts in Prussian Lithuanian Periodicals in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Statistics and Insights
items: Martin Ludwig Rhesa’s Prutena: Between Vaterland (Fatherland) and Heimat (Homeland)
items: Intertextual Links of Johann Ferdinand Kelch’s poem Lietuvininkai: Christian Gottlieb Mielcke’s Poem Pilkainis
items: Reception of Danielius Kleinas’s Ideas in Povilas Frydrichas Ruigys’s Grammar Anfangsgründe einer Littauischen Grammatick (1747)
items: Foreword
items: Editorial Board and Table of Contents
items: Anotations
items: Works Printed in Vilnius in the Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Catalogue of the Vilnius Jesuit Academy Library
items: The Account of the Death of King Wladyslaw IV Vasa in Merkinė on 20 May 1648 (ed. and translated from Latin into Lithuanian by Mintautas Čiurinskas)
items: The Account of the Illness and Death of Wladyslaw Vasa
items: The Orthography and Dating of Simonas Daukantas’s Unfinished Second Collection of Song Bundles
items: Traces of Jan Kochanowski in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory and Epigrammatic Poetry
items: The Lithuanian Language and the Political Identity of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Experiences of the Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries
items: From a ‘Ruthenian’ to a ‘Noble Lithuanian’: Shifts in the Sixteenth-Century Historical Narrative of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
items: Henri de Valois and the Occasional Poetry at the Time of the Royal Election of 1573: Jean de La Gessée’s Henrias
items: The Making of a Culture Hero: Jurgis Eišiškietis of Many Hats and his Milieu in Sources and Historiography
items: Authors of this volume
items: Polish Edition of the Epinikia of the Victory at Orsha

Chronicle
type: item
description: -
subject: Chronicle
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Ona Aleknavičienė
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Kęstutis Gudmantas
creator: Raimonda Meyer-Ravaitytė
creator: Simona Mocejūnaitė- Vaitkienė
creator: Jūratė Pajėdienė
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Tadas Šaulys
creator: Eleonora Terleckienė
creator: Viktorija Vaitkevičiūtė Verbickienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 235
ending page: 264

Annotations
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description: Axel E. Walter, Orpheus Prutenus. Selbstkonzept und Rezeption des Dichters Simon Dach, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2020, 415 p. ISBN 978-609-481-083-1 Deutsche Gelehrte und die baltischen Sprachen, hrsg. von Harald Bichlmeier, Christiane Schiller und Silke Brohm, (Schriftenreihe der Gesellschaft für Baltische Studien 5), Hamburg: baar, 2024, 194 p. ISBN 978-3-935536-50-9 Kęstutis Daugirdas, Andrius Volanas ir reformacija Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje, monografija, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 445 p. ISBN 978-609-425-385-0 Alkiškių, Šiaulių, Žeimelio evangelikų liuteronų parapijos ir jų archyvai, sudarė Ernestas Vasiliauskas, Klaipėdos universiteto Baltijos regiono istorijos ir archeologijos institutas, Klaipėda: Klaipėdos universiteto leidykla, 2024, 239 p. ISBN 978-609-481-187-6
subject: Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-01-27
publication date: 2025-01-27
starting page: 227
ending page: 233

Donelaitis’s Translator Was a Poet!
type: item
description: -
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Alina Kuzborska
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 218
ending page: 225
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.11

Miks Stolperjons, a Satirical Poem from the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
type: item
description: -
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 196
ending page: 217
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.10

Miks Stolperjons, a Satire in Verse (the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century): The Manuscript and Two Publications in the Lithuanian Press
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description: Miks Stolperjons is a 192-line satirical poem written in Lithuanian in the second half of the nineteenth century (before 1879). The plot of the poem consists of a series of comic situations in which the protagonist, Mikas, keeps falling into due to his clumsiness and lack of good manners. The semi-German personal name Stolperjons (Ger. stolpern ‘to stumble’) in the title indicates that this is probably a translation. Two original quatrains are inserted into the text of the satire that mock the uncultured behaviour typical of Prussian Lithuanians. In its language and artistic expression, Miks Stolperjons is consistent with the general level of Prussian Lithuanian poetry of the time. Today, three versions of the text are known: the manuscript and two publications in the press. The manuscript copy of Miks Stolperjons is part of a notebook of poems in the Manuscript Department of the Wroblewski Library of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (shelf mark: F163–1086, fol. 13r–17v). The manuscript contains later corrections and additions in darker black ink in a different hand, which are not reflected in the publications. The first publication of the satirical poem appeared in Gothic type in the Prussian Lithuanian newspaper Lietuviška ceitunga of 23 September 1879. The text published here is almost identical to the manuscript text. The publication in Latin characters in the American Lithuanian newspaper Vienybė lietuvninkų of 8 July 1896 was slightly edited: the spelling and language were modernised. In the manuscript, the authorship of the Lithuanian text of the poem, with a question mark, is attributed to Mikelis Šapalas (1827–1887), a Prussian Lithuanian public figure, teacher, poet, translator, and an active contributor to the Lietuviška ceitunga. In the Lietuviška ceitunga, the poem is signed with X., a very popular pseudonym used by many authors at the time. In Vienybė lietuvninkų, the pen-name Lietuvaitė M. S. appears under the poem. It was used by Joana Tamošauskait…
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Literature of Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
subject: satirical poem
  topic: keywords
subject: manuscript
  topic: keywords
subject: publication
  topic: keywords
subject: author
  topic: keywords
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 186
ending page: 195
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.09

I Wrote to the Quandt Family and Their Descendants in 1756. Genealogy of the Family Published in the Obituary for Quandt (1772)
type: item
description: -
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Mindaugas Strockis
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 152
ending page: 185
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.08

Genealogy of the Prussian Line of the Quandt Family Written by Johann Jacob Quandt, the Last Bearer of the Surname
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description: Johann Jacob Quandt (1686–1772), the general superintendent of Prussia, is well-known in the history of Lithuanian literature and culture as a promoter of Lithuanian writing in eighteenth-century Prussian Lithuania. About a dozen Lithuanian books were produced under his care. He involved students and graduates of the University of Königsberg in the writing process. It is not known what prompted Quandt to write the genealogy of his family and when he started this work, but it is known that he finished it in 1756 and left the manuscript to his nephew, Johann Christoph Bohlius (1703–1785). After his death, Quandt’s personal archive was reviewed and some of the documents were included in the obituary ‘To the Man While He Lived […] Magnificent [...] Johann Jacob Quandt’ (Viro, dum viveret, magnifico [...] Johanni Jacobo Quandt [...], Königsberg, 1772). This obituary was the first publication of the genealogy of eight generations of the Quandt family. The Quandts established themselves in Königsberg in the sixteenth century; the Teutonic Knights or their descendants may have been the founders of this branch of the family. The obituary with the genealogy of the Quandts is kept at the National Library of Poland in Warsaw (Biblioteka Narodowa w Warszawie, sign. SD XVIII.4.1170 adl.). Quandt’s manuscript has not survived or has not been found. Many of the men of the Quandt family had been educated at the University of Königsberg, served in government posts, were priests, and one was a merchant engaged in commerce. The men of the family usually chose the daughters of priests as their wives, making it an elite family. Of the Quandt family, three of its representatives are better known today: Jacobus, the great-grandfather of Johann Jacob Quandt, his father Johann, and our Johann Jacob Quandt, the general superintendent of Prussia, the preacher of the royal court, and first professor of theology. The appended source was translated from the Latin by Dr Mindaugas Strockis.
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Jonas Jokūbas Kvantas
  topic: keywords
subject: Johann Jacob Quandt
  topic: keywords
subject: Karaliaučius
  topic: keywords
subject: Königsberg
  topic: keywords
subject: genealogy of the Quandts
  topic: keywords
subject: literary texts of Quandt’s funeral
  topic: keywords
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 137
ending page: 151
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.07

Recommendation of Heinrich Tilesius, the Rector of the Tilsit Provincial School, to His Pupil Johann Schultz
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description: The article discusses and presents, along with its translation into Lithuanian and commentaries, a document kept at the Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Ger. Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz) in Berlin (shelf mark: GStA PK: I. HA GR, Rep. 7 Preußen, No. 191 [1685–1703]). It is a copy of the recommendation written on 30 April 1695 by Heinrich Tilesius (1666–1732), the rector of the Tilsit provincial school, to the pupil Johann Schultz (Jonas Šulcas, ~1678–1709), a future theology student at the University of Königsberg, a priest in Prussian Lithuania, and the translator of the first Lithuanian book of literary fiction, Die Fabeln Aesopi (Aesop’s Fables, Königsberg, 1706). Tilesius’s recommendation is important for several reasons. This archival source provides information about the Tilsit provincial school: the name of Johann Schultz extends the list of the school’s well-known pupils, evidences the most important subjects included in the curriculum of the time, and reveals some of the competences of the schoolmaster. Tilesius’s Latin text is an example of a recommendation written in a high or almost Ciceronian style of eloquence; it is a distinctive rhetorical piece demonstrating the excellent classical education of the rector of the provincial school of Tilsit. The recommendation also adds new details to the biographical information on Johann Schultz, the pupil of this school, a future creator of Lithuanian literature, or, more precisely, provides some facts about his education prior to his studies at the University of Königsberg: not only did he go to the provincial school in Tilsit, but he also attended the Latin school in Insterburg, where, besides learning Latin, he also studied Greek and acquired knowledge of poetry, philosophy, and, in particular, rhetoric. Schultz’s teachers included not only Heinrich Tilesius, but also Johann Picker (~1640–1693), a well-known pedagogue of the time, a follower of Philipp Jacob Spener …
subject: Publications
  topic: section
subject: Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
subject: Tilsit provincial school
  topic: keywords
subject: Heinrich Tilesius
  topic: keywords
subject: Johann Schultz (Jonas Šulcas)
  topic: keywords
creator: Birutė Triškaitė
creator: Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 107
ending page: 135
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.06

Publications of Fiction Texts in Prussian Lithuanian Periodicals in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries: Statistics and Insights
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description: In 1823, the first Lithuanian periodical appeared in Tilžė (Ger. Tilsit). It was a magazine-type publication called Nusidavimai Dievo karalystėje. It was followed by more Lithuanian newspapers and their supplements in Prussian Lithuania. Print shops produced the newspapers in German and Lithuanian, in Gothic typeface. Most of them appeared in the print shops of Tilžė and Klaipėda (Ger. Memel). The newspapers published a wide range of material: articles on various subjects (philosophy, religion, the natural sciences, art, geography, etc.), reviews, and also texts of fiction, in the dissemination of which the periodicals of Prussian Lithuania played an important role. The article examines the amount of fiction texts (original and anonymous prose and poetry) published in Prussian Lithuanian periodicals, identifies the periodicals that published the most of them and their changes over the decades. It also reveals the cultural context of the printing of fiction in the periodical press: the network of people involved in the creation, publication, and distribution of texts. The names of fiction authors and periodical editors are identified, and their relationship to the world of culture is discussed. It was established that during the period under study (1849–1913), more than 3250 publications of works of fiction appeared in 27 periodicals and their supplements intended for Prussian Lithuania (Kaimynas, Lietuviška ceitunga, Tilžės keleivis, and others). The texts of fiction published in these periodicals came in a variety of genres: poetry, prose, drama, satire, and humour. The choice of the authors and types of texts depended on the editors of the publications. The editors of the periodicals that published the largest numbers of the texts of fiction were individuals active in the field of Prussian Lithuanian writing in the late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries. The fiction published in the periodical press also spread in the form of albums of copies. The manuscript co…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: periodical press of Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
subject: texts of fiction
  topic: keywords
subject: bibliographical analysis
  topic: keywords
subject: statistics
  topic: keywords
subject: collections of copies
  topic: keywords
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 83
ending page: 103
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.05

Martin Ludwig Rhesa’s Prutena: Between Vaterland (Fatherland) and Heimat (Homeland)
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description: Martin Ludwig Rhesa’s (Lith. Martynas Liudvikas Rėza, 1776–1840) original work, the two-volume collection of his German poetry Prutena (1809, 1825), became available to Lithuanian readers approximately two hundred years later, when Antanas A. Jonynas translated it into Lithuanian (2023). This fact opens up the possibility not only to get to know Rhesa’s literary abilities, but also to delve into the world of East Prussian intellectual life, to which the poet undoubtedly belonged. Rhesa’s duality, his belonging to two cultures – German and (Prussian) Lithuanian – is clearly visible in his understanding of the concept of ‘homeland’. The dual concept of ‘homeland’ in German, Heimat and Vaterland, is already evident in the titles of the collections and in the distribution of emphasis in the texts themselves. The poetic works described by the adjective vaterländisch imply an attachment to German cultural values: the Prussian government, the king, the official Evangelical Lutheran Church, while prutenisch would refer to the way of life and the culture of the ancestors of the Balts – the Prussians and the Lithuanians of that time – in their own homeland, Prussian Lithuania. The concept of a small homeland or fatherland is evident in some poems and ‘folk songs’. In Prutena, Rhesa adopted a Herderian strategy, since Herder published folk songs of various nations alongside poems by specific authors (Volkslieder, 1778/1779). In Rhesa’s work, the majority of the poems are his own, while ‘(folk) song texts’ account for only a quarter of the genre. Rhesa gives different genre descriptions to his German texts with the addition of ‘song’. He refers to poems such as ‘Der versunkene Brautring’ (The Sunken Ring), ‘Mila’ (Mila), ‘Elwa und Selmis’ (Elwe and Selmis), ‘Des fernen Schiffers Lied’ (The Sailor’s Song), and many others simply as eine littauische Daina (A Lithuanian Song). In the second volume, several texts have Volkslied in their title, such as ‘Der Lindentanz. Samländisches…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Prutena
  topic: keywords
subject: Borussia
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subject: Ludwig Rhesa
  topic: keywords
subject: Johann Gottfried Herder
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subject: Vaterland / Fatherland
  topic: keywords
subject: Heimat / Homeland
  topic: keywords
subject: idyll
  topic: keywords
subject: daina / folk song
  topic: keywords
creator: Alina Kuzborska
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 63
ending page: 82
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.04

Intertextual Links of Johann Ferdinand Kelch’s poem Lietuvininkai: Christian Gottlieb Mielcke’s Poem Pilkainis
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description: Johann Ferdinand Kelch’s (Lith. Johanas Ferdinandas Kelkis, 1801–1877) poem Lietuvininkai (Prussian Lithuanians), composed in the second half of the nineteenth century, was first published in the monthly magazine Saulėteka (Sunrise, Nos 8–9, 1900), edited by Martynas Jankus (1858–1946) and printed in his print shop. It is a 472-line historical poem written in a four-line cross-rhymed iamb. The first historical poem in Lithuanian – Pilkainis by Christian Gottlieb Mielcke (Lith. Kristijonas Gottlybas Milkus, 1733–1807), printed in the early nineteenth century – inspired Johann Ferdinand Kelch to write his own historical poem Lietuvininkai. Kelch’s decision to build on and interpret his predecessor in his own way was a natural one: this was due to the issues of national and religious identity, which had become highly relevant in the socio-cultural context of mid-nineteenth-century Prussian Lithuania. The intertextuality of Lietuvininkai should not be seen as a literary method consciously chosen by the author but as a kind of unfolding of the collective subconscious. Mielcke based his poem on the rationalist model of historical development that had gained a foothold in the Age of Enlightenment. Kelch built the story of the Prussian Lithuanians on a religious narrative of history. By tracing the ancestry of the Prussian Lithuanians back to the descendants of the biblical Noah, he seemed to try to inculcate Christianity into the ancestors of the old Balts and at the same time to suppress the memories of historical injustice, which had been reawakened by the Germanisation that had intensified in the mid-nineteenth century. Mielcke’s poem became a suitable model, which, when followed, supplemented, and adjusted, made it possible to rethink the most dramatic period of the nation’s history, to strongly suggest that Christianisation of the Prussian Lithuanians was God’s intended plan, and that having won eternal salvation, one should not really regret the loss of national grea…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Literature of Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
subject: historical poem
  topic: keywords
subject: textual interpolation
  topic: keywords
subject: intertextual links
  topic: keywords
subject: Christianisation
  topic: keywords
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 45
ending page: 62
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.03

Reception of Danielius Kleinas’s Ideas in Povilas Frydrichas Ruigys’s Grammar Anfangsgründe einer Littauischen Grammatick (1747)
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description: The article analyses the reception of Danielius Kleinas’s ideas in Povilas Frydrichas Ruigys’s grammar Anfangsgründe einer Littauischen Grammatick (1747, hereinafter RG). Two aims were pursued: (1) to single out Kleinas’s ideas that Ruigys found relevant and suitable for describing the language of the mid-eighteenth century and (2) to identify the intentions of Ruigys in adopting them. Using an analytical interpretive approach based on philological analysis, it is shown that Kleinas’s Grammatica Litvanica (1653, hereinafter KG) was a particularly important source. The need of the Age of Enlightenment to learn about the world and to educate society is highlighted in discussing the motives for adopting and adapting ideas. The study of the reception of Kleinas’s ideas leads to the following conclusions: 1. Frequent references to KG, both explicit and implicit, point to a similar school of linguistic thought and the acceptability of its ideas. 2. KG was a particularly important source in two respects: (1) selecting a dialect for grammar and distinguishing it from others and (2) developing an extensive section on syntax. 3. By adopting Kleinas’s key idea of choosing one dialect as the basis for the description of the Lithuanian language, Ruigys expanded its area to two counties: Įsrutis (Ger. Insterburg) and Ragainė (Ger. Ragnit). He considered the other dialects in Prussia and Lithuania Major as secondary. Ruigys was the first to classify Lithuanian dialects by the opposition main : secondary or centre : periphery. 4. By placing emphasis on the stability, universality, and prestige of the main dialect in relation to other dialects, Ruigys continued the tradition of forming standard language on the basis of one dialect, which was initiated by Kleinas. In the eighteenth century, this was relevant for the written form of the language. 5. By introducing secondary dialects, he aimed to facilitate the integration of individuals appointed to priesthood in a new linguistic envi…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Danielius Kleinas
  topic: keywords
subject: Povilas Frydrichas Ruigys
  topic: keywords
subject: grammar of the Lithuanian language
  topic: keywords
subject: inguistics of seventeenth-eighteenth-century Prussian Lithuania
  topic: keywords
creator: Ona Aleknavičienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 21
ending page: 44
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.02

Foreword
type: item
description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 9
ending page: 17
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.58.01

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
type: item
description: -
subject: Front Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Liucija Citavičiūtė
creator: Žavinta Sidabraitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 1
ending page: 8

Chronicle
type: item
description: -
subject: Chronicle
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Asta Vaškelienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 321
ending page: 328

Anotations
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description: Gedimino laiškai, sudarė ir iš lotynų kalbos vertė Sigitas Narbutas, įvadą ir komentarus parašė Darius Kuolys, iliustracijas piešė Marius Jonutis, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2023, 64 p. ISBN 987-609-425-344-7 Lietuvos ir Žemaičių Didžiosios Kunigaikštystės metraštis. Monografinis tyrimas ir kritinis leidimas, parengė Kęstutis Gudmantas = Chronicle of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Samogitia. A Study and a Critical Edition, edited by Kęstutis Gudmantas, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 459 p., faks. ISBN 978-609-425-127-6 Žvaigždės pakeičia skeptrus: 1695 m. Kražių kolegijos rankraščio poezija, sudarė ir parengė Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė, iš lotynų ir lenkų kalbos vertė Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė, Regina Koženiauskienė, Sigitas Narbutas, komentarus rašė Ona-Dilytė-Čiurinskienė, Regina Koženiauskienė, 2024, 423 p.: iliustr., santr. angl. k. ISBN 978-609-425-293-8 Pirmasis Juozapato Kuncevičiaus gyvenimo aprašymas Relatio (1624). Palaimintojo Juozapato kankinystės poezija XVII a. knygelėje Rhythmus: studija, Relatio komentuotas leidimas, vertimas iš lotynų kalbos; straipsnis, Rhythmus kopija ir perrašas, poetinis vertimas iš lotynų kalbos, parengė Mintautas Čiurinskas ir Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2023, 224 p., iliustr, faks. ISBN 978-609-425-373-7 Mintautas Čiurinskas, Europinė Oršos pergalės (1514) propaganda ir Lietuvos kultūra, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024, 207 p., iliustr. ISBN 978-609-425-387-4 Oršos pergalės (1514) šaltiniai: poezija, proginiai ir naujienų spaudiniai = Fontes victoriae apud Orsham A. D. 1514: carmina, editiones occasionales et libelli nuntiorum, sudarė ir parengė, [įvadą ir komentarus parašė] Mintautas Čiurinskas, iš lotynų kalbos vertė Mintautas Čiurinskas, Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė, Eugenija Ulčinaitė, iš vokiečių kalbos vertė Vilija Gerulaitienė, Vilnius: Lietuvių literatūros ir tautosakos institutas, 2024…
subject: Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Darius Kuolys
creator: Eleonora Terleckienė
creator: Vaiva Vasiliauskaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 307
ending page: 319

Works Printed in Vilnius in the Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Catalogue of the Vilnius Jesuit Academy Library
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description: Based on the eighteenth-century manuscript catalogue of the Vilnius Jesuit Academy library, the purpose of the article was to investigate what part of the library consisted of the output of the printing houses of Vilnius, to identify the printers of Vilnius whose output the library had and the number of those works, and the themes of books that the Jesuits read. From approximately 4500 entries in the catalogue, 155 entries were selected in which Vilnius was indicated as the place of publication or identified as such. All the information, including transcribed catalogue entries, identified publications, books belonging to the Vilnius Jesuit Academy library with their provenance marks and the current known location of their storage, is provided separately in the appendix. During the research, 143 titles were identified, and 259 copies were counted. After identifying almost all the printed works selected from the catalogue, it turned out that the library had eight titles (nine copies) printed in the sixteenth century, 68 titles (122 copies) from the seventeenth century, and 67 titles (128 copies) printed in the eighteenth century. Most of them were the output of the Vilnius Academy printing house. Religious texts, comprising polemical, hagiographic, and theological writings, constituted 56 per cent of all printed works, while works on logics, mathematics, geography, and physics made up only 7.7 per cent. Various calendars started to be printed in the second half of the eighteenth century and became very popular. The largest number of works printed in Vilnius were in Latin (48.6 per cent) and Polish (47.2 per cent); works in French, German, Lithuanian, Latvian, and other languages accounted for 4.2 per cent. The inscriptions in the books reveal that the Jesuits not only bought books but also received them as gifts. Not only famous patrons but also the authors such as Maciej Miłuński, Jan Zrzelski, Antonius Aloysius Misztołt donated books to the library. The Vilnius Acad…
subject: Publications
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subject: manuscript catalogue of the Vilnius Jesuit Academy library
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subject: output of the Vilnius Academy printing house
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subject: sixteenth-eighteenth-century works printed in Vilnius
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creator: Aušra Rinkūnaitė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 254
ending page: 305
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.09

The Account of the Death of King Wladyslaw IV Vasa in Merkinė on 20 May 1648 (ed. and translated from Latin into Lithuanian by Mintautas Čiurinskas)
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description: -
subject: Publications
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subject: -
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creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 245
ending page: 253
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.08

The Account of the Illness and Death of Wladyslaw Vasa
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description: The article presents an anonymous account of the last days of life and death of Wladislaw Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, in Merkinė. The ruler died on 20 May 1648, and the text in question is one of the most detailed sources on this event. The article also includes extracts from Wladislaw Vasa’s will, hitherto unused in the historiography, which reflect his wish regarding the burial place and his bequest to St Casimir’s Chapel after his death. That this ruler’s heart rests in St Casimir’s Chapel of Vilnius Cathedral, which he had finished within his lifetime, was due to the circumstances of his death in Lithuania, the autopsy carried out, and the will of the nobles of Lithuania rather than that of the ruler. On the other hand, the latter was also exercised, by burying his body in the mausoleum of the Polish kings in Wawel Cathedral in Cracow. The introductory article discusses some of the circumstances of the ruler’s stay and illness in Merkinė, as well as the source itself. The publication includes a full Latin-Lithuanian translation of the account of Wladislaw Vasa’s illness and death.
subject: Publications
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subject: Wladyslaw IV Vasa
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subject: Merkinė
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subject: illness
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subject: disease treatment
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subject: ruler’s death
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creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 223
ending page: 244
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.07

The Orthography and Dating of Simonas Daukantas’s Unfinished Second Collection of Song Bundles
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description: Simonas Daukantas collected Lithuanian folk songs for almost his entire creative life (at least 1827–1861). He published his first collection of songs in 1846 (DAJNES Żiamajtiû pagał Ƶôdiû Dajnĩnikû ĩszraszytas, Petropĩlie: Spaudinie pas C. Kray) and was preparing the second one, but did not complete it. This article mostly deals with the orthography and dating of the three bundles of songs (XXIV, XXX, and XXX) that were intended for this second collection. It also elaborates on the time Daukantas completed his hand copy of Simonas Stanevičius song edition of 1829 (DAYNAS ŻEMAYCZIU SURYNKTAS YR YSŹDUTAS PAR SYMONA STANEWICZE Mokslynyka Lyteraturas yr Grażiuju Prytirymu. WYLNIUJE. SPAUSTUWIEJ’ B. NEUMANA) and edited the orthography of his own handwritten songs. One song, “It Is Hard to our Little Neighbor” (“Mūsų susiedeliui vargas yra”; XXIV bundle f. 33v), may be considered originating in the somewhat earlier period, in the last years of Daukantas residing in St Petersburg (…–1850). Its most palpable orthographic features: <ąn> [an, ọn], <ó> [ọ], possibly <‑tĩ>. During Varniai period (1850–1855) Daukantas must have written down several songs: “For that One Night” (“Dėl tos vienos nakties”) with the names of winds and a proverb (XXIV bundle f. 30r); three songs (XXIV bundle f. 30r); and the song “(He) Sings Alone” (“Vienas dainuoja”; XXIV bundle f. 32r). Graphochronologically significant orthographic features: <‑ti>; <‑jo> praet. 3; <ą> [ą] in word‑initial and word‑medial positions. During the Kálnėnai period (1859–1861), Daukantas possibly wrote down most of the songs he intended for his second collection of folk songs—those were the major texts of the bundles XXIV (f. 2r–29r), XXX (f. 1r–12v), and XXXI (f. 1r–18v). Their most salient orthographic features were: <‑ja> praet. 3; <an> [ą] in word‑initial and word‑medial positions; <Rig‑> (also often older apostrophic forms: <‑j’> in iness. sg. [f.] case; <Lietuw‑>). Somewhat later, but still, in Kálnėnai, Daukantas m…
subject: Articles
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subject: 19 c. Lithuanian folk songs
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subject: Simonas Daukantas
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subject: History of Lithuanian orthography
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subject: graphochronology
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subject: dating by orthography
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creator: Giedrius Subačius
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 197
ending page: 220
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.06

Traces of Jan Kochanowski in Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory and Epigrammatic Poetry
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description: The article addresses the relevance of Jan Kochanowski, a Polish-Lithuanian Renaissance poet, in the discourse of literary theory and in practical creative work in the eighteenth century. The first part of the article examines the manner and the extent that Kochanowski is mentioned in the most important printed poetic and rhetorical works of the period under scrutiny. The second part discusses some examples of eighteenth-century epigrammatic works written in Lithuania, looking for their points of contact with Jan Kochanowski’s literary tradition. The study reveals that Jan Kochanowski figures in the discourse of eighteenth-century literary theory as a writer of threni, satires, and dramas, but his example is not used to explain the theory of the genre of the epigram. Only Franciszek Dmochowski, the only one of the authors of poetics, mentions Kochanowski as a poet of witty epigrams (fraszki). Kochanowski’s epigrammatic tradition did not find any followers in eighteenth-century Latin epigrammatic poetry in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, but the short jokes (żarty) may indicate its reception in the poetry in Polish of the second half of the eighteenth century.
subject: Articles
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subject: Jan Kochanowski
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subject: epigram
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subject: occasional poetry
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subject: poetics
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subject: rhetoric
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subject: genre
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creator: Asta Vaškelienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 179
ending page: 196
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.05

The Lithuanian Language and the Political Identity of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Experiences of the Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries
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description: The article examines Lithuanian texts published in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries from the point of view of political awareness. It elucidates the kind of relationship between the Lithuanian-speaking and reading community and the Lithuanian state of that time. In order to do so, the political vocabulary of works in Lithuanian and the political ideas expressed in them are also examined. At the same time, it considers the political role given to the Lithuanian language by Lithuanian intellectuals writing in other languages and the image of the Lithuanian language and the Lithuanian-speaking community created by political journalism and historiography written in Latin, Russian and Polish. Written by Lithuanian intellectuals and published in Königsberg in 1547, the first Lithuanian book is symbolically dedicated to the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and its addressee is the Lithuanian and Samogitian people and all the estates of this nation. Mikalojus Daukša, the translator of Postil, published in 1599 at the Vilnius University press, and his patron, Bishop of Samogitia Duke Merkelis Giedraitis urged the citizens of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania to build their Republic on the Lithuanian language. In their view, it was the Lithuanian language that had to unite the different estates in the Grand Duchy and ensure the solidarity of the political nation. In the seventeenth century, the professors of Vilnius University working on Lithuanian books stressed the connection between the Lithuanian language and the Lithuanian state. Konstantinas Sirvydas created not only a cultural, philosophical, theological, but also a political Lithuanian vocabulary: his trilingual dictionary of Polish, Latin, and Lithuanian, first published by the Vilnius University press around 1620, was reprinted four more times during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was the foundation for the Lithuanian texts of the time. Sirvydas personally wrote and published…
subject: Articles
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subject: the Lithuanian language
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subject: linguistic concept of a nation
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subject: political concept of a nation
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subject: political awareness
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subject: political identity
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subject: political vocabulary
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subject: historical narrative
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subject: religious literature
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creator: Darius Kuolys
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 135
ending page: 178
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.04

From a ‘Ruthenian’ to a ‘Noble Lithuanian’: Shifts in the Sixteenth-Century Historical Narrative of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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description: The article discusses the shifts in the attitude towards the Orthodox believers and Ruthenians in the sixteenth-century historical and polemical writings and epistolary works of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It starts with an analysis of the conversion of pagan Lithuanian dukes to Orthodoxy as described in the chronicles of Lithuania, which is followed by a review of the letters of Chancellor Albertas Goštautas (Olbracht Gasztołd, †1539) and the struggle against the group of Hetman Konstantinas Ostrogiškis (Konstanty Ostrogski) that is reflected in those letters. The study concludes with an analysis of texts by Augustinus Rotundus, Maciej Stryjkowski, and other authors from the second half of the sixteenth century. In these texts, the representatives of the Ruthenian elite of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania – the Chodkevičius (Chodkiewicz), the Valavičius (Wołłowicz) – are already considered to be ‘noble Lithuanians’.
subject: Articles
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subject: Ruthenians
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subject: Lithuanians
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subject: Grand Duchy of Lithuania
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subject: faith
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subject: ethnicity
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subject: sixteenth-century chronicles
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subject: letters
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subject: polemical texts
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creator: Kęstutis Gudmantas
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 107
ending page: 134
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.03

Henri de Valois and the Occasional Poetry at the Time of the Royal Election of 1573: Jean de La Gessée’s Henrias
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description: The subject of this article is a collection of occasional poems in Latin entitled Henriade (Henrias), attributed to Jean de La Gessée, a French poet of the second half of the sixteenth century. The collection is dedicated to Henri de Valois, Duke of Anjou, the elected ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. This article is part of a series of publications dealing with different aspects of the text. It examines the circumstances and context of the creation of this little-studied collection, as well as its structure and dedicatees, including the members of the Polish and Lithuanian delegation sent to France. After comparing most of the known French and Latin publications from the period of the royal election of 1573 and analysing them from a thematic, problematic, and literary points of view, we can affirm that Henrias is undoubtedly one of the most important collections of poems dedicated to this election. It has a rigorous compositional structure, is distinguished by its poetic artistry, and can be considered a representative example of the Latin poetry produced at the Valois court during this period. The main difficulty of this study lies not in the texts of the collection but in the identification of their author. The association of the court poet who wrote under the name ‘Jean de La Gessée’ with Jean Gesse, a Protestant bourgeois and ‘secrétaire de la chambre’ of François de Valois, is more than questionable. The author’s poems contain numerous factual, chronological, and logical inconsistencies with La Gessée’s ‘official’ semi-hypothetical biography, which is in fact almost completely undocumented. The content of these Latin works as also the autobiographical details they contain make this identification even more unlikely. We believe that this modified name is a pseudonym (i. e., an allonym) used by Louis de Clermont d’Amboise de Bussy, a courtier of the Duke of Anjou, Henri de Valois (later first gentleman of François de Valois), who is mentioned in histo…
subject: Articles
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subject: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the sixteenth century
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subject: Henri de Valois
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subject: Neo-Latin literature in the sixteenth century
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subject: Henrias
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subject: ean de La Gessée
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subject: Louis d’Amboise
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creator: Rasa Marija Šileikienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 72
ending page: 106
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.02

The Making of a Culture Hero: Jurgis Eišiškietis of Many Hats and his Milieu in Sources and Historiography
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description: The study focuses on the identity of Jurgis Eišiškietis (Georgius de Eyxyski; Georg Eyschitzki), a Master of Liberal Arts, and on his role in the efforts to open a secular private school for the sons of the nobility in Vilnius. Two sources related to him are extant: (1) an entry in the protocols of the capitular session of the Vilnius Cathedral Chapter of 28 April 1539 and (2) a letter of Duke Albert of Prussia (Albrecht von Preußen) to Philipp Melanchthon of 16 June 1541, recommending Jurgis of Eišiškės, who is going to the University of Wittenberg, to his care. The study states that the main initiator of the school was Albertas Goštautas, the grand chancellor of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. It is quite safe to say that Goštautas’s project of the reform of the state of Lithuania included the necessity to create educational institutions that would nurture the political class. It is quite likely that Goštautas’s secretary Jan Wilamowski was his de facto trustee for education. As a clergyman of the lower orders and a Master of Liberal Arts, Jurgis Eišiškietis fulfilled the qualifications of a rector of a cathedral school. After the death of his patron Albertas Goštautas (late in 1539) and with the support of Duke Albert of Prussia, Jurgis was probably looking for new prospects and was recommended by him for studies at the prestigious University of Wittenberg. It cannot lead to the conclusion that Jurgis had broken with his former denomination and become a Protestant, and all the more reason not to assume that the initiative to establish the school was related to the desire to spread Protestant ideas in Vilnius. A critical review of Lithuanian and Polish historiography aims at refuting and rejecting the errors and hypotheses that have accumulated over time and are no longer relevant. Identification of Jurgis Eišiškietis with Jurgis Zablockis, an early Protestant author and a preceptor of young people, as well as with Gregorius Vilnensis, the pastor of Rusnė, is reject…
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Jurgis Eišiškietis
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subject: Albertas Goštautas
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subject: Georgius Haustintz Lituanus
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subject: Reformation
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subject: Vilnius Cathedral school
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creator: Vytautas Ališauskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 11
ending page: 71
doi: 10.51554/SLL.24.57.01

Editorial Board and Table of Contents
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description: -
subject: Front Matter
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subject: -
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creator: Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-12-26
publication date: 2024-12-26
starting page: 1
ending page: 6

Authors of this volume
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description: -
subject: Back Matter
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-08-06
publication date: 2024-08-06
starting page: 294
ending page: 296

Chronicle
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description: -
subject: Chronicle
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
creator: Kotryna Rekašiūtė
creator: Asta Vaškelienė
creator: Viktorija Vaitkevičiūtė
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-08-06
publication date: 2024-08-06
starting page: 280
ending page: 293

Annotations
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description: -
subject: Annotations
  topic: section
subject: -
  topic: keywords
creator: Ona Dilytė-Čiurinskienė
creator: Darius Kuolys
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-08-06
publication date: 2024-08-06
starting page: 273
ending page: 279

Polish Edition of the Epinikia of the Victory at Orsha
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description: Epinikia orszańskie, czyli wiersze o pamiętnej klęsce Moskali, opracowanie tekstu, wstęp i komentarz Zofia Głombiowska, (Polonorum Bibliotheca Latina), Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2019, 291 p., iliustr. ISBN 978-81-7863-914-3
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: -
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creator: Mintautas Čiurinskas
rights: Copyright (c) 2021 Authors https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-08-06
publication date: 2024-08-06
starting page: 245
ending page: 272
doi: 10.51554/SLL.21.52.12