Vaclovas Biržiška
Vaclovas Biržiška (born December 2, 1884 in Viekšniai near Mažeikiai ; † January 3, 1956 in Waterbury , Connecticut) was a Lithuanian lawyer and scientist who worked in particular in the field of Lithuanian documents. He was the brother of Mykolas Biržiška and Viktoras Biržiška .
Life
Vaclovas Biržiška studied at the Julius Janonis Gymnasium Šiauliai from 1895 to 1903 and then studied mathematics and natural sciences at the University of St. Petersburg , but soon switched to law, history and ethnography. In 1909 he finished his studies as a lawyer.
Until the First World War , Vaclovas Biržiška worked as a lawyer in Vilnius and Šiauliai . During the war he served as an officer in the tsarist army until 1917. From 1920 to 1923 he served in the Lithuanian army in various positions. Growing academic assignments made him a senior lieutenant colonel in the army. D. acknowledge.
From 1920 he taught law, history and bibliography at the predecessor institutions of today's Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas , from 1924 as professor and from 1930 as full professor. From 1933 to 1935 he was Dean of the Faculty of Humanities.
In 1944 Biržiška fled to the west from the advancing Red Army . From 1946 to 1949 he worked at the Baltic University in Hamburg . In the USA he worked as a legal librarian . He was a consultant at the Library of Congress from 1951 to 1953 .
literature
- Biržiška, Vaclovas . In: Encyclopedia Lituanica Vol. I, pp. 366-368. Boston 1970–1978.
- Biržiška, Vaclovas . In: Lietuviškoji tarybinė enciklopedija vol. II, p. 168. Vilnius 1977.
Web links
- Literature by and about Vaclovas Biržiška in the catalog of the German National Library
- biography
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Biržiška, Vaclovas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Lithuanian lawyer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Viekšniai |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 3, 1956 |
| Place of death | Waterbury , Connecticut |