Jonas Šliūpas was a prominent and prolific Lithuanian activist during the Lithuanian National Revival. For 35 years, he lived in the United States working to build national consciousness of Lithuanian Americans.
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First issue of Unija
Title page of Lietuviškieji raštai ir raštininkai (Lithuanian Texts and Writers) published in 1890
Cover of Laisvoji mintis with a monument of Giordano Bruno
Šliūpas (sitting on the left) at the Stockholm conference in 1917
Lithuanian representatives in London (Šliūpas sitting second from left)
Šliūpas on a Lithuanian postage stamp issued for the 50th anniversary of Aušra in 1933
Caricature of Šliūpas and his lobbying efforts on civil registration published in December 1938In their orbit 1
Writers born in the 1860s 6
About this person
Jonas Šliūpas was a prominent and prolific Lithuanian activist during the Lithuanian National Revival. For 35 years, he lived in the United States working to build national consciousness of Lithuanian Americans. He edited numerous periodicals, organized various societies, and published some 70 books and brochures on various topics. His sharp criticism of the Catholic Church made him highly controversial and unpopular among the conservative Lithuanians.
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