Title Prieštaringi požiūriai į lietuvių kalbą Tilžėje XX a. 3−4-uoju dešimtmečiais: amžininkų liudijimai Marburgo Herderio instituto archyve /
Translation of Title Contradictory attitudes towards the Lithuanian language in Tilžė in the 3rd and 4th decades of the 20th century: contemporaries’ testimonies in the archive of Marburg Herder institute.
Authors Brokartaitė-Pladienė, Indrė
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Is Part of Acta humanitarica universitatis Saulensis.. Šiauliai : VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla. 2012, t. 14, p. 152-163.. ISSN 1822-7309
Keywords [eng] Lithuanian language in East Prussia ; national self-awareness ; confrontation of Vydūnas and Kristupas Kairys ; spheres in which Lithuanian was used ; orthography ; vocabulary
Abstract [eng] The material belonging to Document archive of Herder institute established in Marburg provides the opportunity to supplement the available data about Lithuanianism in East Prussia and analyze the relationship of Lithuanian national minority (in the district of Tilžė) with the native language during the interwar. With reference to two collections of Document archive of Herder institute (written heritage by Kristupas Kairys as well as Vilius Gaigalaitis’ and Juergen Storost’s documents present in Povilas Rėklaitis’ heritage), this article researches attitudes of Vydūnas (fosterer of Lithuanianism) (1863-1953) and Kristupas Kairys (school inspector of Tilžė who was loyal to German authority) (1876-1951) towards the survival of the Lithuanian language in East Prussia in the process of assimilation and alternation of generations. In order to reveal the confronting attitudes of these personalities in detail, the primer and press material as well as historians’ research of interwar East Prussia have been used. Topical issues of the Lithuanian language peculiar to interwar East Prussia which appeared in the confrontation of Vydūnas and K. Kairys help to detail the analysis of the spheres in which Lithuanian was used as well as to better know the characteristics of the language itself (e.g. features of orthography and vocabulary). Contradictory attitudes of these personalities towards the Lithuanian language reveal two different types of the national self-awareness which were formed by the childhood environment, professional obligations, internal convictions and relationship with the sociocultural situation of East Prussia. Vydūnas was a representative of practical philosophy having free spirit. [...].
Published Šiauliai : VšĮ Šiaulių universiteto leidykla
Type Journal article
Language Lithuanian
Publication date 2012