Mikalojus Akelaitis

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