Eduards Volters (1856-1941)


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Name (English): Eduards Volters
Short name: Eduards Volters
Year of birth: 1856
Year of death: 1941
Short Description: "Eduards Volters (1856–1941) was a linguist, ethnographer, archaeologist who studied the Baltic languages and culture. He was a long-time professor at the Saint Petersburg University (1886–1918) and Vytautas Magnus University (1922–1934).

Volters, born in Riga, studied linguistics in Germany, present-day Estonia, and Ukraine earning his master´s degree in 1883. In 1886–1918, he lived in Saint Petersburg where he taught at the Saint Petersburg University and worked as a librarian at the Library of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He supported and encouraged Lithuanian and Latvian students and joined their cultural activities. In 1918, Volters moved to Vilnius and started organizing the Central Library of Lithuania (considered to be the predecessor of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania). Due to the Polish–Soviet War, he moved to Kaunas where he lived until his death. He established and headed the Central Library (1920–1922), was director of the Kaunas City Museum [lt] (1922–1936), and taught various courses at the Vytautas Magnus University (1922–1934)." - (en.wikipedia.org 20.09.2020)
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[Last update: 2020/09/20]