Konstantinas Sirvydas
Konstantinas Sirvydas (rarely referred as ''Konstantinas Širvydas''; ; ; – August 23, 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 trilingual
dictionary in Lithuanian,
Latin, and
Polish (1619). Famous for his
eloquence, Sirvydas spent 10 years of his life preaching sermons at
St. Johns' Church in Vilnius (twice a day – once in Lithuanian and once in Polish).
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