Juozapas Arnulfas Giedraitis

Juozapas Arnulfas Giedraitis, was a Lithuanian clergyman, translator, writer, and a key figure of the early Lithuanian National Revival. Giedraitis was a Doctor of Canon Law from 1790, and the Bishop of Samogitia from 1803. Chairman of the Lithuanian Educational Commission from 1797. Giedraitis was the first to translate the whole of the New Testament into Lithuanian in 1816. The Samogitian Revival that he began lead to the broader Lithuanian National Revival.