Liudvikas Jakavičius

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Liudvikas Jakavičius
Akmene, Lithuania
Died20 August 1941 (aged 70)
NationalityLithuanian
Occupation(s)Banker, journalist, writer, publisher, theatre director and actor
SpouseHonorata Grimalauskaitė-Jakavičienė
ChildrenGražina Jakavičiūtė-Grimalauskaitė Šaltenienė, Liudas Jakavičius-Grimalauskas and Donatas Bronislovas Jakavičius-Grimalauskas

Liudvikas Jakavičius (22 June 1871 – 20 August 1941) was a writer, journalist, publisher, theatre director, banker and nobleman. He was born in Akmenė (Lithuania) and died in Anykščiai (Lithuania).

Biography

Jakavičius studied drama and spoke nine languages (Lithuanian, Latvian, German, Polish, Finnish, Swedish, Czech, Russian and Latin). He used the pseudonym of Lietuvanis and represented informal literature, as a man who spread forbidden Lithuanian print, worked in several newspapers and in radio. Unfortunately, most of his works disappeared during the occupation of the Soviet regime after the

interwar.

House where Liudvikas Jakavičius – Lietuvanis died in 1941 (Anykščiai
, Lithuania). Picture year 2011.
First World War. In 1916, all his business was paralyzed and confiscated by the outbreak of the First World War and he changed his residence to Saint Petersburg
(Russia). He bought 15,000 USD (equivalent to US$350,000 in 2014) in printing equipment and moved the machinery in secret to Saint Petersburg, where he continued with his printing house spreading Lithuanian language.

Jakavičius was a

book smuggler – transported Lithuanian language books printed in the Latin alphabet into Lithuanian-speaking areas of the Russian Empire where Lithuanian press was banned
.

In 1919, Jakavičius returned to Lithuania and re-opened his printing house (AB Lietuvos Knygynas) and inaugurated five bookstores in the major cities of Lithuania, establishing itself as the largest publisher of Lithuania. In 1924, he founded the Society for Ethical Culture. In 1938, he was awarded by President, Antanas Smetona, with the Great Grand Cross of the Order of Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. In 1940, sick and depressed by the Soviet occupation of his country, Jakavičius moved to Anykščiai (Lithuania), where his father-in-law, Juozas Grimalauskas, bought a little village with a private lake, a mansion and nine houses (one for each of his children). Grimalauskas bought this little village because of his bankruptcy in Poland by the Great Depression in 1929. Jakavičius died in 1941 in the lands of his wife Honorata Grimalauskaitė-Jakavičienė.

In 2011, his great-grandson Liudvikas Jakavičius–Grimalauskas announced to the press that he will open in the near future the "Liudvikas Jakavičius – Lietuvanis Museum" in honor to his great-grandfather Jakavičius. The museum will be about the Second World War and about the Soviet Holocaust that caused more victims than Nazism. Currently, there is a permanent exhibition of the life and work of Liudvikas Jakavičius in the Siauliai Ausros Museum (Šiauliai, Lithuania). Also, there is about 400 works (books, newspapers, postcards, etc.) written and printed by Liudvikas Jakavičius in the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania).

Family

He was married to Honorata Grimalauskaitė-Jakavičienė, a Lithuanian–Polish noblewoman and public figure. Honorata's father, Juozas Grimalauskas, was a wealthy Lithuanian, whose family was close to the

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera Orchestra, the Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra
and the Venezuela National Symphony Orchestra.

Most prominent works

Book written by Liudvikas Jakavičius–Lietuvanis in 1907
  • 1905 – Lietuvių naminis draugas
  • 1907 – Juokdarys
  • 1907 – Juokų kalendorius
  • 1909 – Artistų patarėjas
  • 1909 – Juokai be pinigų
  • 1924 – Teismas
  • 1927 – Linksmųjų monologų pasakotojas
  • 1927 – Džiaugsmas per ašaras
  • 1929 – Juokų milteliai: linksmūs vakarėliams paįvairinti kupletai su gaidomis
  • 1929 – Meilės ir tarnybinių laiškų
  • 1932 – Ką turi žinoti jauna mergaitė prieš ištekėsiant
  • 1936 – Linksmų valandų dainelės
  • 1939 – Lietuvos dievai

Footnotes

  1. ^ "Liudvikas Jakavičius – Lietuvanis" in Kultūros barai (2011 – No. 4 – ISSN 0134-3106). Vilnius: Almantas Šlivinskas, pg. 75.
  2. ^ "Rygos Naujienos," in Zurnalistikos Enciklopedija (Encyclopedia of Journalism). Vilnius: Pradai, 1997; pg. 427.
  3. ^ "Liudvikas Jakavičius – Lietuvanis" in Kultūros barai (2011 – No. 4 – ISSN 0134-3106). Vilnius: Almantas Šlivinskas, pg. 77.

References

  • Siauliu Ausros Museum – Liudvikas Jakavicius
  • Anyksciai Culture Centre – Liudvikas Jakavicius
  • Lietuvos Rytas – Liudvikas Jakavicius
  • LITERATURA.LT – Liudvikas Jakavicius
  • Samogitian Cultural Association – Liudvikas Jakavicius
  • EUROZINE.COM – Liudvikas Jakavicius
  • DRAUGAS.ORG – Liudvikas Jakavicius
  • Vilnius University – Liudvikas Jakavicius
  • University of Illinois at Chicago – Liudvikas Jakavicius
  • Leonas Peleckis-Kaktavičius. Baltas lapas – lyg altorius. – Klaipėda: Rytas, 1995, pp. 242–247. –
    ISBN 9986-499-25-9

External links
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