Konstantinas Sirvydas

Who was Konstantinas Sirvydas?

Konstantinas Sirvydas died 1631 was a Lithuanian religious preacher, lexicographer and one of the pioneers of Lithuanian literature from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, at the time a confederal part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. He was a Jesuit priest, a professor at the Academia Vilnensis and the author of, among other works, the first grammar of the Lithuanian language and the first tri-lingual dictionary in Lithuanian, Latin and Polish. Famous for his eloquence, Sirvydas spent 10 years of his life preaching sermons at St. John's church in Vilnius.