Akademinė Klaipėdos bendruomenė 1934–1939 metais: kultūrinės socializacijos prielaidos
Academic comunity in Klaipėda in 1934–1939: cultural socialization premises

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the historical conditions and subjective premises for Klaipėda student and professor cultural expression in public life. The chronology of the work covers the period from the beginning of the high schools establishment process in 1934 until their dispossession in 1939. Administration documents of the considered institutions kept in the funds of the Lithuanian Central State Archives are used in the work – administration documents, letters sent and received, professors’ personal files as well as professors’ manuscripts and letters preserved in Manuscript departments of the Lithuanian National Martynas Mažvydas Library and the Lithuanian Academy of Science Library. Refereeing to the sources examined it is stated that the organization of studies in Republic Pedagogical Institute and in the Trade Institute as well as Klaipėda academic community formation process were positively influenced by teachers‘ professionalism, competence, academic relations and their public expression attitudes. The establishment of high schools, consolidation of academic community during the short considered period confirmed Lithuanian positions in the region, helped to obtain local supporters, made impact on public communication. All this made up social predispositions to strengthen cultural influence which was broken by violent political circumstances in 1939 when Klaipėda region was lost.

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