Antanas Gravrogkas

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Antanas Julijonas Gravrogkas, author. Antoni Julijan Gravrogc (May 18, 1880 in Szadowo, died April 1, 1958 in Kaunas) - Lithuanian mechanic engineer, social and political activist, mayor of Kaunas (1932-33).

He came from a noble family. He studied in Telsia at the beginning of his studies, later attended high school in Mitawa (1892-93) and Shawlach, who graduated in 1899. From 1900 he studied mathematics in Petersburg and later studied at the Petersberg Institute of Technology (1903-10), where he became involved in Lithuanian Social Democracy.

After graduation he worked at the factory in Yekaterinoslav and later (1916-19) in Smolensk. In 1920 he returned to Lithuania, taking up work on the railway. From 1922 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Lithuania, after his dissolution in 1950 he taught at the Kaunas Polytechnic Institute.

He was socially and politically active: for a long time he was the vice president of "Šaulių sąjunga". From 1932 to 1933 he was the mayor of Kaunas.

Pisywał do gazet litewskich, m.in. "Varpas", "Skardas", "Naujoji Gadynė", "Viltis", "Lietuvos Aidas". Publications



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