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Jan 01, 0001 Lėlaičiai, Lithuania Died on 12 May 1830 (aged 1829)
Lithuanian poet, ethnographer, lexicographer and philologist
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About Dionizas Poka
- Dionizas Poška (October 1764 – 12 May 1830) was a Lithuanian cultural figure of the early 19th-century Samogitian Revival, the early stage of the Lithuanian National Revival.
- Born to a family of petty Samogitian gentry, Poška attended Kražiai College and worked as a lawyer.
- He dedicated the last decade of his life to cultural work.
- He had wide interests in the Lithuanian language, culture, and history.
- He collected archaeological artifacts and antiques and stored them in Baublys (plural: Baubliai), which is considered to be the first Lithuanian museum.
- Poška wrote many works but during his life he published only a letter poem and two articles on history.
- His most famous work is epic poem "The Peasant of Samogitia and Lithuania" (Mužikas Žemaiciu ir Lietuvos).
- He also compiled a trilingual Polish–Latin–Lithuanian dictionary but did not finish it.
