# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/butku-juze
# Generated: 2026-08-14T10:23:55.442Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/butku-juze"
name: "Butkų Juzė"
slug: "butku-juze"
description: "Butkų Juzė was the pen name of Juozas Butkus, a Lithuanian educator, poet, playwright and journalist. He worked for numerous newspapers from 1910 onwards, including Aušrinė, Žemaitis, Lietuvos žinios, and Naujojoje Lietuvoje. In 1932 he was inducted into the Lithuanian Journalists' Union. He wrote the play Palaidūnas (Prodigal) in 1925, and translated numerous works into Lithuanian, including Goethe's Egmont. He later worked as a museum curator and teacher at the Klaipėda Pedagogical Institute."
tagline: "Lithuanian educator, poet, playwright and journalist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Butk%C5%B3_Juz%C4%97-Juozas_Butkus.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1893-07-21"
deathDate: "1947-04-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           32.22
  momentum:             0
  historical:           4.601332
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%83%D9%88_%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2"
    title: "بوتكو چوز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butk%C5%B3_Juz%C4%97"
    title: "Butkų Juzė"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butk%C5%B3_Juz%C4%97"
    title: "Butkų Juzė"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BA%D1%83_%D0%AE%D0%B7%D0%B5"
    title: "Бутку Юзе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%83%D1%82%D0%BA%D1%83_%D0%AE%D0%B7%D0%B5"
    title: "Бутку Юзе"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12651759"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump