Kristijonas Donelaitis

Japanese: ドネライティス（英語表記）Kristijonas Donelaitis

1714‐80
A representative poet of Lithuania. Born in a rural area of the Lithuanian province of East Prussia, he studied theology at the University of Königsberg and spent his life as a pastor at the Lutheran church in the village of Tolminkömen. While preaching to the German and Lithuanian villagers, he composed many Lithuanian poems in hexamita (six rhymes). After his death, his posthumous poems were discovered, and his masterpiece, the epic poem Metai (The Four Seasons), was published in 1818 with a German translation by Ludwig Rhesa, a professor at the University of Königsberg. It received rave reviews both at home and abroad, and he was immediately named the national poet of Lithuania.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1714‐80
リトアニアを代表する詩人。東プロイセンのリトアニア州の農村に生まれ，ケーニヒスベルク大学で神学を学んだのち，トルミンケーメン村のルター派教会の牧師として生涯を送った。村民のドイツ人とリトアニア人に説教を行うかたわら，ヘクサミター(六脚韻)で多くのリトアニア語の詩をつづった。死後，遺稿詩が発見され，ケーニヒスベルク大学教授レーザLudwig Rhesaによって1818年に代表作の叙事詩《四季Metai》がドイツ語訳を添えて発表されるや，内外の絶賛を浴び，たちまちリトアニア国民詩人の名を冠された。

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