Dionizas Poška

Dionizas Poška (; October 1764 – 12 May 1830) was a Lithuanian poet, historian and lexicographer sometimes described also as Polish-Lithuanian He contributed to the early 19th-century Samogitian Revival, the early stage of the Lithuanian National Revival. Born to a family of petty Samogitian nobility, Poška attended Kražiai College. From 1786–1821, with some breaks, Poška worked as a lawyer, regent, clerk in the courts of Raseiniai. From 1790, he lived in the purchased Barzdžiai manor.

Poška excavated ancient graves and hillforts, collected archeological fossils, weapons, money, books. In 1812, he established the first museum of antiquities in Lithuania, within the trunk of a thousand-year-old oak called Baublys. He corresponded and communicated with Samogitians such as , Jurgis Plateris, Simonas Daukantas, , Kajetonas Nezabitauskis and others as well as Vilnius University professorship, e.g. Joachim Lelewel and Ivan Loboiko.

Poška wrote his works in Lithuanian and Polish. Most of his works remained only as manuscripts, which were included in a compilation of his own and other authors' works. His only works that were published during his lifetime were the verse letter "Pas kuniga Xawera Bohusza Lietuwi, yr Jokimą Leleweli Mozura" (from 1810) and two historical articles.

His most famous work is the epic poem "Mužikas Žemaičių ir Lietuvos''"'' (in contemporary spelling: ''Mużikas Żiamajćziu ir Lietuwos''; the name is translatable to "The Peasant of Samogitia and Lithuania"). The epic poem was written , but printed only in 1886. He also compiled a trilingual Polish–Latin–Lithuanian dictionary from 1825 onwards but did not finish it. Provided by Wikipedia