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Jonas basanavicius wikipedia

          Jonas Basanavičius was an activist and proponent of the Lithuanian National Revival.!

          Jonas BASANAVICIUS, (1851-1927), physician and ethnologist, leader of the Lithuanian national revival, and signer of the Lithuanian Declaration of Independence, born at Ozkabaliai, near Bartininkai, county of Vilkaviskis, on November 23, 1851.

          In 1873 he began studying history at the University of Moscow.

          Jonas Basanavičius.

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        2. Jonas Basanavičius was an activist and proponent of the Lithuanian National Revival.
        3. Jonas Basanavičius was a physician, folklorist, and a leader of the Lithuanian national movement.
        4. Lithuanian activist ().

          5. A year later he transferred to the school of medicine and was awarded a scholarship reserved for Lithuanians. Upon receiving his degree in medicine, he was allowed to remaining the surgical department to prepare for a professorship, but without funds.

          So he would have to begin medical practice in Moscow with the risk that he would be transferred further into Russia to work out repayment of his scholarship. This uncertainty drove the young physician to settle in Bulgaria for many years.

          The Physician in Bulgaria.

          Just at that time Bulgaria had reverted to being an independent principality (1878-1879). Believing that he would have more freedom there than in Russia, Basanavicius