# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zigmas-zinkevicius
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:21:45.011Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zigmas-zinkevicius"
name: "Zigmas Zinkevičius"
slug: "zigmas-zinkevicius"
description: "Zigmas Zinkevičius was a Lithuanian academician, Baltist, linguist, linguistic historian, dialectologist, politician, and the former Minister of Education and Science of Lithuania (1996–1998). Zinkevičius authored over a hundred books, including the popular six-volume \"History of the Lithuanian Language\" (1984–1994), and over a thousand articles, both in Lithuanian and other languages. He was an academician of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science since 1991 and a full member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences from 1990 to 2011, when he became an emeritus member."
tagline: "Lithuanian academic (1925-2018)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zinkevicius.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1925-01-04"
deathDate: "2018-02-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.625
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump