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Juozapas Arnulfas Giedraitis

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Lithuanian clergyman and writer (1757-1838)

Religious FiguresLived 1754 to 1838 · aged 83
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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.

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Sarcophagi of the Samogitian bishops Giedraičiai in the basement of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in VarnianSarcophagi of the Samogitian bishops Giedraičiai in the basement of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Varnian

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Order of Saint Anna, 1st class
Order of Saint Stanislaus

Religious Figures born in the 1750s 6

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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.

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deceased
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Lived 1754 to 1838 · aged 83
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6 languages

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