Antanas Venclova
Antanas Venclova (born January 7, 1906 in Trempiniai near Kalvarija , Russian Empire , † June 28, 1971 in Vilnius , USSR ) was a Lithuanian teacher, literary critic and politician of Soviet Lithuania. He wrote the anthem of the Lithuanian Soviet Republic.
Life
Until 1932 he studied Lithuanian , Russian and French at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas in Lithuania, which was independent between 1920 and 1940 . In 1933 he worked as a teacher in Kaunas, from 1934 in Klaipėda in the Lithuanian occupied Memel region . There he was editor of the magazine Trečias frontas (Third Front).
In 1940, after the occupation of the country by the Soviet Union , he was appointed Minister of Culture of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic and a member of the Soviet-Lithuanian Parliament Liaudies Seimas . He was a member of the delegation in Moscow that asked for Lithuania to be "admitted" to the Soviet Union. During the time of the German occupation of his country from 1941 he lived in the Soviet Union and became a member of the CPSU . From 1941 he was a deputy in the Supreme Soviet of Soviet Lithuania. In 1944 he came back to Lithuania. In 1952 he received the Stalin Prize . He is the author of the anthem of Soviet Lithuania and translator of the anthem of the Soviet Union .
From 1954 to 1959 he was chairman of the Writers' Union of Soviet Lithuania .
He is the father of the writer Tomas Venclova .
Web links
- Official website of the Venclova Museum (English)
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| SURNAME | Venclova, Antanas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian teacher, literary critic and politician; Minister of Culture of the Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 7, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trempiniai, now Marijampolė district |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 28, 1971 |
| Place of death | Vilnius |