Petras Klimas
Petras Klimas (born February 23, 1891 in Kušliškiai , Wolost Kalvarija (now Kalvarija municipality ); † January 16, 1969 in Kaunas , Lithuanian SSR ) was a Lithuanian lawyer and politician , diplomat .
Life
Klimas got primary education in Kalvarija . Then he studied Russian in the 4-class district school in Marijampolė . In 1905 Klimas graduated from 4 classes and visited the printing works of "Vilniaus žinios" and the house of the publisher Petras Vileišis during the excursion in Vilnius . In 1910 Klimas graduated from Marijampolė High School and in 1914 studied law at Moscow University in Russia and then worked at the university's law faculty.
In 1915 Klimas came to Vilnius , Lithuania . In 1916 he prepared the memorandum to the US President Woodrow Wilson . He was the actual editor of the newspaper " Lietuvos aidas ". 1917 became a member of Lietuvos Taryba . From 1919 Klimas lived in Kaunas and worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania . He was vice minister and minister. He took part in the 1919 Paris Peace Conference as a member of the Lithuanian delegation . From 1920 to 1923 he was a professor at the Lietuvos universitetas in Kaunas. 1923 became ambassador in Rome (then in France, Belgium and Spain). In 1945 he was arrested and was in Lukiškės Prison and then in the former Kopeisk camp in Russia, in Chelyabinsk Oblast in the Southern Urals. He developed chronic bronchitis, diabetes, microangiopathy and macroangiopathy , the retina changed, doctors diagnosed heart failure and cataracts. He was not released until December 1954.
Klimas was non-party.
His grave is in the Petrašiūnai Cemetery , Kaunas.
family
He was the son of Bernardas Klimas (1858-1901) and Elena Klimienė (Rašytinaitė) (1866-1937). In addition to Petras, the family also grew up with Sergijus Klimas (1885–1941), Adolfas Klimas (1889–1985) and sister Marija Elena Klimaitė (1896–1931).
Petras Klimas was married to Bronislava Mėginaitė (1892-1957), the daughter of the sister Severija of the writer Vaižgantas . The children were the son Petras Klimas and the daughter Eglė Fourier-Ruelle (Klimaitė) (1892–1957).
Works
- The history of the Lithuanian state
bibliography
- Petras Klimas: valstybininkas, diplomatas, istorikas, kankinys (sud. Albertas Gerutis ). - Cleveland : Viltis, 1978.
- Petras Klimas. Iš mano atsiminimų. - Vilnius: Lietuvos enciklopedijų redakcija, 1990.
- Petras Klimas. Lietuvos diplomatinėje tarnyboje 1919–1940 m. - Vilnius: Mintis, 1991.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lietuvos albumas. Janina Markevičaitė, Liudas Gira, Adomas Kliučinskis. - Kaunas / Otto Elsner, Berlin, 1921 m., P. 340-341.
- ↑ www.kvb.lt
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klimas, Petras |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Verbelis, K. (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian lawyer, politician and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 23, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kušliškiai , Kalvarija Region, Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | 16th January 1969 |
| Place of death | Kaunas , Lithuanian SSR |