Pranas Dovydaitis was born in
Marijampolė County, Runkiai, and attended
Veiveriai Teachers' Seminary, later studying at the
Imperial Moscow University. In 1913, he became an
editor of the newspaper
Viltis in
Vilnius. It was closed in 1915 and Dovydaitis went to
Kaunas, where he started to participate actively in its academic circles, and from 1922 to 1940, he was a
professor at the University of Lithuania (now -
Vytautas Magnus University). The range of topics of his articles was quite wide -
religious science,
philosophy ,and
natural science, but in all his articles, some synoptical-historical interest could be found. The topics of
primitive man and culture were one of his priorities. He was a
Signatory of the Act of Independence of Lithuania. After the
Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Dovydaitis was arrested in 1941 with his family and sent to one of the
Soviet Gulag camps in the northern
Ural. His remains have not yet been found. Dovydaitis was a member and one of the founders of the Catholic youth and student organization
Ateitis in Lithuania, which is now a full member of
Fimcap. == Family ==