Mikalojus Akelaitis

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Mikalojus Akelaitis" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (July 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Lithuanian. (December 2008) Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Lithuanian article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 284 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Lithuanian Wikipedia article at [[:lt:Mikalojus Akelaitis]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|lt|Mikalojus Akelaitis}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Mikalojus Akelaitis (pen-name - Juras Varnelis; December 5, 1829 in Čiuoderiškės, Marijampolė – September 27, 1887 in Paris) was a prominent Lithuanian writer, publicist and linguist. He contributed to Aušra development, composed narratives Kvestorius (1860), Jonas Išmisločius (1860). In the letter to historian Michal Balinski in 1857, 3 of December he wrote: "We need to rise the Lithuanian language, to pull out of disregard the language which has the greatness of Sanskrit, power of Latin, daintiness of Greek and sonority of Italian."

References

Lithuanian Encyclopedia of Literature^{[permanent dead link]}

This article about a Lithuanian writer or poet is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.