# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mikalojus-dauksa
# Generated: 2026-08-15T06:40:57.882Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mikalojus-dauksa"
name: "Mikalojus Daukša"
slug: "mikalojus-dauksa"
description: "Mikalojus Daukša was a Lithuanian and Latin religious writer, translator and a Lithuanian Catholic Church official. He is best known as the first among Lithuania's humanists to underline the need to codify and promote the Lithuanian language over Chancery Ruthenian and Polish, which were in use in the Grand Duchy at the time. Furthermore, Daukša preached the ideas of Counter-Reformation and Renaissance humanism."
tagline: "Lithuanian writer and translator"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DauksaMikalojus.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1527"
deathDate: "1613-02-16"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.66
  momentum:             1.209302325581395
  historical:           12.74200933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Микалоюс Даукша"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mikaloyus Daukşa"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mikalojus Daukša"
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    title: "Mikalojus Daukša"
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    title: "Mikalojus Daukša"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mikalojus Daukša"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikalojus_Dauk%C5%A1a"
    title: "Mikalojus Daukša"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump