# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juozas-tumas-vaizgantas
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:16:30.038Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juozas-tumas-vaizgantas"
name: "Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas"
slug: "juozas-tumas-vaizgantas"
description: "Juozas Tumas also known by the pen name Vaižgantas was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest and an activist during the Lithuanian National Revival. He was a prolific writer, editor of nine periodicals, university professor, and member of numerous societies and organizations. His most notable works of fiction include the novel Pragiedruliai and the narrative Dėdės ir dėdienės about the ordinary village folk."
tagline: "Lithuanian writer (1869–1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/TumasVai%C5%BEgantasJ.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1869-09-20"
deathDate: "1933-04-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.06
  momentum:             3.789473684210527
  historical:           11.414148
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "يوازس توماس فيزغانتس"
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    title: "Юозас Тумас"
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    title: "Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D1%83%D0%BC%D0%B0%D1%81%2C_%D0%AE%D0%BE%D0%B7%D0%B0%D1%81"
    title: "Тумас, Юозас"
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    title: "Юозас Тумас"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump