Pranas Mašiotas

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Pranas Mašiotas (born December 19, 1863 in Pūstelninkai near Vilkaviškis , Wolost Būbleliai , Šakiai district ; † September 14, 1940 in Kaunas ) was a Lithuanian writer, publicist and politician , vice minister .

Life

Mašiotas studied at the Kudirkos Naumiestis Elementary School and from 1874 to 1883 at the Marijampolė High School . In 1887 he graduated from the University of Moscow in Russia with a degree in mathematics education . From 1887 to 1889 he worked in Lomscha (Poland), from 1889 to 1891 in Riga (Latvia). From 1892 to 1915 he taught mathematics at the German secondary school in Riga and from 1913 to 1915 he was the director of the girls' grammar school.

Mašiotas was married to Marija Jasienskytė from Linkuva from 1894 .

From 1919 to 1923 he was Deputy Minister of Education of Lithuania .

His grave is in the Petrašiūnai cemetery .

Honors

• 1923: Honorary doctorate from Lietuvos universitetas
• 1999: Honorary doctorate from Kaunas University of Technology

literature

• Prano Mašioto bibliografija / Albinas Degutis. - Vilnius: Vilniaus Zanavykų bendrija, 1990. - 157 p.
• Populiarieji paauglių serialai: P. Mašioto 2006 m. seminaro medžiaga: straipsnių rinkinys / Onutė Kaladienė. - Vilnius: Lietuvos nacionalinė Martyno Mažvydo biblioteka, 2008. - 63 p .: diagr. - ISBN 978-9955-541-90-5

Web links

• Pasakų senelis iš Novužės krašto // XXI amžius, No. 68 (1369) September 14, 2005

Individual evidence

1. ↑ P. Mašiotas dirbo Lietuvai ir užgeso su ja // Respublika July 6, 2013
2. ↑ Lietuvos albumas / Janina Markevičaitė, Liudas Gira, Adomas Kliučinskis. - Kaunas / Otto Elsner, Berlin, 1921.
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.