Joseph Antonovich Laukaitis ( lit. Juozas Laukaitis , February 3, 1873, Ginyunay , Suvalki Gubernia - August 15, 1952, Vladimir Prison , USSR ) - a priest, public figure, religious journalist, founder of Lithuanian liturgical terminology, poet, deputy of the Duma IV, the visant. provinces .
| Iosif Antonovich Laukaitis | |
|---|---|
| Juozas laukaitis | |
 Deputy of the Fourth Duma, 1913 | |
| Date of Birth | February 3, 1873 |
| Place of Birth | Ginyunay , Suwalki Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | August 15, 1952 (79 years) |
| Place of death | |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  Lithuania  the USSR |
| Occupation | priest, deputy of the State Duma of the IV convocation of the Suwalki province |
| Religion | roman catholic |
Biography
Born into a peasant family of Antano Laukaytis and Mariyonos Laukaytene, they had five children. His father was an enlightened man, during the ban on printing books in Lithuanian, he bought their smugglers, and after the lifting of the ban, he signed on to Lithuanian newspapers so that he could read to young children. In 1880–1883 he studied at an elementary school, after which his parents sent him to the Marijampole gymnasium. In 1889, he entered the seminary in Seinah [1] . In 1897 he graduated from the St. Petersburg Roman Catholic Theological Academy with a master's degree in theology, was ordained a priest.
On July 1, 1897, he was appointed secretary of the Sein spiritual consistory, and a few months later he was appointed chaplain of the Sein bishop Antanas Baranauskas , served in this position until 1902 [1] , then served as an assessor on the Sein spiritual consistory. From 1902 - lecturer, from September 5, 1904 [1] and until 1910 - Professor of the Sein Theological Seminary, taught homiletics and Lithuanian . Abbot of the Church of St. Stanislaus in Leipunsky [2] parish of the Sejny district of the Suvalk province. Had an income of 300 rubles per year. He actively participated in the creation of the Society of St. Casimir of the Lithuanian book. He founded the Lithuanian printing house Laukaitis, Dvaranuskas, Nariuskas and Company in Seiny together with his friends, which allowed publishing the weekly енiburys (Ogni) with the applications Artojas (Plowman), Šaltinėlis (Source), Vainikas (Venets). ) and "Kvieslys" (Herald). In 1906-1907 [3] editor-publisher of the Lithuanian magazine Šaltinėlis. In 1908 he founded the magazine for priests "Vadovas" ("Guide") and became its editor [1] . In 1909, he initiated the first congress of Lithuanian linguists in Seinach , which was attended by many well-known Lithuanian linguists of the time, including Jonas Jablonskis , Kazimeras Buga , Juozas Balchikonis and others. Since 1910 the administrator of the Roman Catholic Leipun parish of the Sejny district of Suwalki province. It is reported that Laukaytis owned 3 tithes of church land [4] .
October 20, 1912 was elected to the State Duma of the IV convocation of the total composition of the electors of the Suvalki provincial electoral assembly. He belonged to the Progressing faction [5] . Consisted in the Duma commissions on public education, on religious issues, to consider bills on the substitution of servitudes in the Warsaw Governor-General and in the Kholm province. From August 1915 to October 31, 1916, the Progressive Bloc was a member (the Progressist faction left the block on 10/30/1916).
During the First World War during the offensive of the German troops he left for Central Russia, was the head of the Committee of the Petrograd Lithuanian Society to assist the victims of the war.
In 1935 he published the memoirs of Bishop A. Baranauskas [6] . He wrote poems, his collection entitled "Sources" [7] .
May 26, 1947 arrested MGB of the USSR . On September 13 of the same year, he was sentenced by a special meeting to a prison term, which he was serving in Vladimir Central . August 15, 1952, died in custody in the seventy-ninth year of life.
Literature
- Ona Voverienė. Gaivusis šaltinis // XXI amžius. Atnaujintas 2008 gegužės 9 d. Nr. 35 (1628).
- Boievich MM Members of the State Duma (Portraits and biographies. Fourth convocation. M., 1913. c. 415 .
- Nikolaev A. B. Laukaytis Joseph Antonovich // State Duma of the Russian Empire: 1906-1917. B. Yu. Ivanov, A. A. Komzolov, I. S. Ryakhovskaya. - M .: ROSSPEN, 2008. - C. 319.
- Fourth State Duma. Portraits and biographies. - SPb .: edition N. N. Olshansko, 1913.
- The 4th convocation of the State Duma: Art phototype album with portraits and biographies. SPb., 1913. Table. 40
Archives
- Russian State Historical Archive. Fond 1278. Inventory 9. Case 421.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Ona Voverienė. Gaivusis šaltinis // XXI amžius. Atnaujintas 2008 gegužės 9 d. Nr. 35 (1628).
- ↑ In the source [1] the name of the parish is twice cited with misprints, the first time is Leipuan, the second is Leipunda, correctly Leipunski from the name Leipuny (see Seynsk uyezd ), now Leipalingis .
- ↑ According to other sources, the editor of this magazine Laukaitis was from 1906 to 1908 [2]
- ↑ The source [3] said: “I had 3 tithes of the church land,” it is not clear what was meant, since if the land belongs to the church, then how it can be at the same time private property.
- ↑ Boiyovich MM Members of the State Duma (Portraits and biographies. Fourth convocation. M., 1913 p. 415
- ↑ Juozas Laukaitis . Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija, T. XI (Kremacija-Lenzo taisyklė). - Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, 2007. 610 psl.
- ↑ Žurnalistikos enciklopedija. - Vilnius: Pradai, 1997. - 265 psl.