Background
Pranas Masiotas was born on December 19, 1863 in Pustylninkai, Vilkaviskisky District, Lithuania.
Pranas Masiotas was born on December 19, 1863 in Pustylninkai, Vilkaviskisky District, Lithuania.
Pranas Masiotas worked as a teacher in Riga (1891-1915), director of the Lithuanian gymnasium in Voronezh (1915-1918), where he organized assistance to needy countrymen.
In 1918 Pranas Masiotas returned to Lithuania, served in the Ministry of Education, was engaged in teaching. He prepared and published 150 books for children, including 30 original ones. He preferred the genres of literary tales, miniature stories, essays, scientific and artistic prose.