Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius
| Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius | |
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| Prime Minister of Lithuania | |
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In office 24 June 1940 – 1 July 1940 |
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| Chairman of Lithuanian Nationalist Union | |
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In office 19 August 1924 – 29 June 1925 |
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October 19, 1882 Subartonys, Russian Empire |
| Died | June 7, 1954 (aged 71) Pennsylvania, United States |
| Political party | Lithuanian Nationalist Union (1924–1926) |
| Spouse(s) | Rebeka Karak (m. 1913) |
| Children | Ona Aldona Mickevičiūtė - Mošinskienė (1914-2005) |
| Alma mater | Lviv University |
Vincas Mickevičius (October 19, 1882 – July 17, 1954), better known by his pen name Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius, was a Lithuanian writer, poet, novelist, playwright and philologist. He is also known as Vincas Krėvė, the shortened name he used in the United States.
Vincas Mickevičius was born to a family of peasant farmers on October 19, 1882, in the village of Subartonys in Dzūkija ethnographic region of Lithuania. His family was called Krėvė by the local villagers, name that he later used for his pen name. The customs and traditions of his native district were a constant source of the inspiration for his literary work.
In 1898, he became a student for the Roman Catholic priesthood at the Vilnius Seminary, but in 1900 he was expelled from the seminary. In 1904, he enrolled the University of Kiev. However, a year later, the university was temporarily closed due to the revolutionary conditions in the Russian Empire, and Krėvė-Mickevičius, unwilling to interrupt his studies, entered the University of Lviv, in Galicia, which was at the time part of the Austrian Empire, and in 1908, he received his doctorate in philology. That same year, the University of Kiev awarded him a gold medal for his thesis on the original home of the Indo-Europeans. In 1913, the University of Kiev awarded him the degree of Master of Comparative Linguistics for his dissertation on the origin of the names Buddha and Pratjekabuddha.
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