Lietuviai XVIII Amžiaus Vokiečių Literatūroje

This monograph occupies a rare position in Lithuanian diaspora intellectual history: it is simultaneously a work of rigorous comparative scholarship and a family memorial, published on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the death of the author's father in the Soviet Gulag camp at Vorkuta. The dedication — explicitly offered 'in place of a monument' — transforms an academic publication into an act of dignified witness at a moment when Soviet occupation foreclosed both public mourning and free scholarly life inside Lithuania itself.

As a study of how Lithuanians and Lithuanian culture appeared in eighteenth-century German literature, the work also recovers a long-neglected dimension of Baltic cultural history: the sustained engagement between German Enlightenment scholarship and the Lithuanian-speaking communities of Prussian Lithuania (Mažoji Lietuva). The dense index, spanning names from Rėza and Ruigis to Voltaire and Zinzendorf, demonstrates the breadth of the source base and provides a durable reference tool for scholars of Baltic German, Lithuanian, and early modern European cultural relations. Published in Rome, printed in Perugia, written in Lithuanian and German, and rooted in a Viennese doctoral archive, this single volume encapsulates the transnational character of mid-twentieth-century Lithuanian diaspora intellectual life.

Diaspora scholarly publication: a Lithuanian Catholic academic institution in Rome funded and published this Lithuanian-language scholarly work during Soviet occupation of Lithuania, ensuring that Lithuanian humanistic scholarship could continue and circulate freely outside Soviet-controlled territory. The dedication framing the book as a memorial substitute for a physical monument to a Vorkuta victim reinforces its function as an act of cultural and personal witness.