Background
Pranas Dovydaitis was born in Marijampolė County, Runkiai and attended Veiveriai Teachers" Seminary, later studied in the University of Moscow.
journalist politician university professor
Pranas Dovydaitis was born in Marijampolė County, Runkiai and attended Veiveriai Teachers" Seminary, later studied in the University of Moscow.
Moscow State University.
In 1913 he became an editor of a newspaper "Viltis" in Vilnius. lieutenant was closed in 1915 and Dovydaitis went to Kaunas where he started to participate actively in its academic circles and from 1922 to 1940 was a professor in the University of Lithuania (now - Vytautas Magnus University). The topics of primitive man and culture were one of his priorities.
He was a Signatory of the Acting of Independence of Lithuania.
After the soviet occupation of Lithuania Dovydaitis was arrested in 1941 with his family and sent to one of the Soviet concentration camps in the northern Ural. His remains have not yet been foundation
Pranas Dovydaitis was the eldest of 15 children in his family.
Dovydaitis was a member and one of the founders of the Catholic youth and student organization Ateitis in Lithuania which is now a full member of Fimcap.