Simonas Daukantas

Novelist

Birthday October 28, 1793

Birth Sign Scorpio

Birthplace Kalviai, Lithuania

DEATH DATE Dec 6, 1864 (71)

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About

Writer, ethnographer, and historian who was a key figure in the Lithuanian national revival. His works include an 1838 history of Lithuania and several collections of Samogitian and Lithuanian folk tales.

Before Fame

He received a law degree from Vilnius University. He subsequently worked as a translator in Riga, Latvia.

Trivia

His novel Palangos petris has been compared to Robinson Crusoe.

Family Life

He was raised in Kalviai, Lithuania.

Associated With

He and Czeslaw Milosz were fellow Lithuanian writers.