33 Facts About Augustinas Janulaitis

Augustinas Janulaitis joined the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania in 1901 and edited its newspaper Darbininku balsas.

Augustinas Janulaitis returned to Lithuania in 1906 and managed to complete his law degree at the University of Moscow in 1907.

Augustinas Janulaitis taught mainly the legal history of Lithuania and became dean of the Faculty of Law in 1935.

Augustinas Janulaitis was transferred to Vilnius University in January 1940.

Augustinas Janulaitis was one of the first academic members admitted to the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences in 1941.

Augustinas Janulaitis then moved to Riga and graduated from the Nicholas I Gymnasium in Riga in 1896.

Augustinas Janulaitis studied law at the University of Moscow until 1899 when he was expelled for participating in the Russian student strike.

Augustinas Janulaitis reprised the role when the play was staged again in Liepaja in January 1900.

Augustinas Janulaitis was arrested in 1900 when the police found an anti-Tsarist brochure and a list of Lithuanian books in his apartment.

Augustinas Janulaitis joined the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania in 1901 and was elected to its Central Committee.

From May 1902 to the end of 1905, Augustinas Janulaitis edited Darbininku balsas, the newspaper of the Social Democratic Party printed by Martynas Jankus.

In 1906, Augustinas Janulaitis returned to Lithuania with a fake passport.

Augustinas Janulaitis then managed to get readmitted to the University of Moscow and complete his law degree in 1907.

Augustinas Janulaitis worked as an assistant attorney to Jonas Vileisis and Tadeusz Wroblewski before obtaining the full attorney license in 1912.

In 1915, Augustinas Janulaitis was elected to a commission of the Scientific Society tasked with the publication of Lithuanian textbooks.

Augustinas Janulaitis was released in late 1917 and returned to Vilnius in early 1918.

Augustinas Janulaitis published the medieval law on the tribunal in 1927.

Augustinas Janulaitis was briefly arrested by the authorities of the newly proclaimed Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic in January 1919.

Augustinas Janulaitis moved to Kaunas and was appointed as a judge to the Supreme Tribunal of Lithuania on 26 May 1919.

Augustinas Janulaitis was the second judge to join the court and was its acting chairman until Antanas Krisciukaitis arrived to Kaunas in June 1919.

In December 1919, Augustinas Janulaitis became a member of the commission tasked with drafting the Constitution of Lithuania which was adopted in 1922.

Augustinas Janulaitis worked at the tribunal until 6 May 1925 when he was reassigned as chairman of the District Court of Panevezys.

Augustinas Janulaitis was returned to the Supreme Tribunal on 24 September 1926.

Augustinas Janulaitis was dismissed as an attorney in September 1935.

Augustinas Janulaitis was recognized as a tenured professor in 1924 and received doctorate in law in 1932.

Augustinas Janulaitis became dean of the Faculty of Law in 1935.

Augustinas Janulaitis was offered the position back in 1922, but refused because at the time he did not have an advanced degree and worked as a judge.

Augustinas Janulaitis participated in various conferences, including the congress of Baltic attorneys in Kaunas in 1931, the conference of Baltic historians in Riga in 1937 and the 8th International Congress of Historical Sciences in Zurich in 1938.

In 1945, Augustinas Janulaitis became the dean of the History Philology Faculty of Vilnius University but was dismissed in July 1946.

Snieckus indicated that Augustinas Janulaitis had expressed his political opinions in the past and specifically pointed out to anti-communist Lietuva ir siuolaikine Rusija published in 1925.

Augustinas Janulaitis died on 22 May 1950 in Kaunas and was buried in the Petrasiunai Cemetery.

Augustinas Janulaitis amassed a large personal library, of which 13,685 titles were donated to the present-day Kaunas County Public Library in 1965.

In 1928, Augustinas Janulaitis was awarded the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas.