Jurgis Baltrušaitis, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Jurgis Baltrušaitis

Poet and translator

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1873

Date of Death: 03-Jan-1944

Profession: poet, diplomat

Nationality: Lithuania

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Jurgis Baltrušaitis (May 2, 1873 – January 3, 1944) was a Lithuanian Symbolist poet and translator, who wrote his works in Lithuanian and Russian.
In addition to his important contributions to Lithuanian literature, he was noted as a political activist and diplomat.
Himself one of the foremost exponents of iconology, he was the father of art historian and critic Jurgis Baltrušaitis Jr..