Graf Jurgis Konstantinas Broel Pliateris was a bibliographer and researcher of the Lithuanian language and literature.
28 Facts About Jurgis Pliateris
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Jurgis Pliateris was an activist of the early stages of the Lithuanian National Revival.
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Jurgis Pliateris visited various archives, including those in Konigsberg, East Prussia, researching Lithuanian language and literature.
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Jurgis Pliateris collaborated with several researchers, including Simonas Stanevicius whom he employed as his secretary and librarian and professor Ludwig Rhesa.
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Jurgis Pliateris wrote several studies, but many were unfinished and none were published due to his early death.
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Jurgis Pliateris's key surviving work in an unfinished bibliographical study of Lithuanian books published to date.
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Jurgis Pliateris collected various historical artifacts and amassed a personal library of about 3,000 volumes.
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Jurgis Pliateris was a member of the noble Plater family, originally from Westphalia.
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Jurgis Pliateris's parents were count Jerzy Plater and duchess Karolina nee Giedroyc.
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The baptismal record revealed that Jurgis Pliateris was born in Memel which was then part of East Prussia and not in his family's estate in or near Sveksna as previously assumed.
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Jurgis Pliateris received basic education from tutors in the family estate at Sveksna Manor.
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Jurgis Pliateris then studied literature and liberal arts at Vilnius University.
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Jurgis Pliateris inherited about 3,400 hectares of land with a manor in Gedminaiciai from his parents and started organizing his library there.
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Around 1834, Jurgis Pliateris was elected as the local Marshal of Nobility and moved to Raseiniai.
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Jurgis Pliateris supported education of the peasants and planned to establish schools that would teach according to the method developed by Joseph Lancaster.
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Jurgis Pliateris distributed some prayer books and other books on religion and morality to the villagers.
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Jurgis Pliateris's tomb was added to the Cultural Heritage Registry in 1993.
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Jurgis Pliateris married Natalija Mikseviciute from Upyte and they had one son Teodoras born just three months before Jurgis Pliateris' death.
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Jurgis Pliateris studied libraries and archives of Vilnius University, Kretinga Monastery, various nobles and members of the clergy.
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In 1833, Jurgis Pliateris financed the publication of Pazymes zemaitiskos gaidos, a collection of sheet music for Lithuanian folk songs prepared by Stanevicius.
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Jurgis Pliateris completed 147 pages in which he described 39 Lithuanian, three Prussian, and seven Latvian books.
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The Prussian and Latvian books were included because Jurgis Pliateris considered them to be written in Lithuanian dialects and not in different languages.
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Jurgis Pliateris organized the books chronologically disregarding content or religious affiliation of the work.
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Jurgis Pliateris described not only the books but provided biographies of their authors.
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Jurgis Pliateris cited more than 150 sources in Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Latin, French, Russian, and German languages.
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Jurgis Pliateris collected books, schematic plans of thirteen castles, portraits of the nobility, weapons, numismatic and archaeological artifacts, etc.
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Jurgis Pliateris amassed a personal library of about 3,000 books and manuscripts.
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Jurgis Pliateris described 91 items that belonged to the Pliateris collection, of them only 76 survived to present day.