Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lithuanian pastor and poet (born 1714)

Kristijonas Donelaitis

Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor (1714–1780)

Kristijonas Donelaitis was a Prussian Lithuanian poet and Lutheran pastor. He lived and worked in Lithuania Minor, a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia, that had a sizable Lithuanian-speaking minority. He wrote the first classic Lithuanian language poem, The Seasons, which…