Kiprijonas Nezabitauskis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 12-Sep-1779
Place of Birth: Skuodas District Municipality, KlaipÄ—da County, Lithuania
Date of Death: 10-Jul-1837
Profession: poet
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Kiprijonas Nezabitauskis
- Kiprijonas Juozas Nezabitauskis-Zabitis (Polish: Cyprian Józef Niezabitowski, 12 September 1779 – 10 July 1837) was a Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest and poet.
- He was half-brother of Kajetonas Nezabitauskis.
- After studies at Vilnius University and Vilnius Priest Seminary, Nezabitauskis was ordained as a priest in 1803 and worked as a parish priest in Varniai and Veliuona.
- After the Uprising of 1831, he fled Tsarist persecutions first to East Prussia and then to France.
- In 1836, he became director of a school established by Polish émigrés in Nancy, France, but died just a year and half later. In Lithuania, Nezabitauskis joined the Samogitian literary movement (an early predecessor of the Lithuanian National Revival) which supported and promoted the use of the Lithuanian language.
- He published a translated work on beekeeping, contributed material to a Lithuanian grammar textbook, and began working on a Lithuanian–Polish dictionary.
- It appears that he abandoned the dictionary after the letter K due to losing support from professor Ivan Loboiko and Count Nikolay Rumyantsev.
- His brother Kajetonas claimed authorship of both the dictionary and the beekeeping work.
- In exile, Nezabitauskis wrote a collection of 18 epic poetry works plus a modification of a ballad Birute by Silvestras Teofilis Valiunas.
- This was one of the first political and philosophical poetry works in Lithuanian.
- The manuscript was discovered in 1909 and first published in 1931.
- He also translated and published excerpts from works by Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais and Adam Mickiewicz that were very popular among Polish émigrés in France.
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