Dovas Zaunius (senior)

Dovas Zaunius
The family of Dovas Zaunius (senior), 1900; First row: Marė, Augustė; second: Berta, Elzė (mother), Dovas (son), Dovas (father), Ema; third row: Ana, Endrius, Marta, Hermanis
Zauniai family, 1900
First row: Marė, Augustė; second: Berta, Elzė (mother), Dovas (son), Dovas (father), Ema; third row: Ana, Endrius, Marta, Hermanis[1]
Born(1845-01-26)26 January 1845
Rokaiten,[a] Province of Prussia, Kingdom of Prussia
Died25 June 1921(1921-06-25) (aged 76)
Rokaiten, Weimar Republic
NationalityPrussian Lithuanian
OccupationFarmer
Known forPolitical and cultural activism
Political partyLithuanian Conservative Election Societies
Board member ofBirutė Society
ChildrenDovas Zaunius
Marta Zauniūtė
and seven more

Dovas Zaunius (German: David Saunus; 1845–1921) was a Prussian Lithuanian cultural and political activist. He supported Lithuanian book smugglers and sheltered Lithuanian activist fleeing the Tsarist police. He was chairman of Birutė Society which organized Lithuanian cultural events and managed the budget of the Lithuanian newspaper Varpas from 1900 to 1905. In 1890, Zaunius co-founded the first of the Lithuanian Conservative Election Societies that sought to elect Prussian Lithuanians to the German Reichstag and Prussian Landtag. Zaunius unsuccessfully ran in the Reichstag elections three times.

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  2. ^ Lazdynas, Rimantas. "Rokaičiai". Enciklopedija Lietuvai ir pasauliui (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 4 September 2017.
  3. ^ Rokaiten, Meyers Gazetteer; click the map to see the old map


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