id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-696 Lithuanian literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 6879 669 63 17th-century Lithuanian scholars also wrote in Latin, which was the common scholarly language in Catholic Europe: Kazimieras Kojelavičius-Vijūkas and Žygimantas Liauksminas are known for their Latin writings in theology, rhetorics and music. Antanas Baranauskas (1835–1902) wrote the poem Anykščių šilelis (The Forest/Pinewood of Anykščiai, a programmatic work whose main aim was to uncover the beauty of the Lithuanian language and to demonstrate its suitability for poetry. While he was a professor at Vilnius University, he became involved in the Lithuanian Helsinki Group,[13] a human rights organization that included protests against Soviet activities in Lithuania. ^ Introduction to Latin language Lithuanian literature Archived 2007-10-06 at the Wayback Machine "Sixteen Lithuanian authors' works will be translated into eight languages around the world". ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-696.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-696.txt