Lietuvių kalba ir jos vartotojai imperatoriškojoje Sankt Peterburgo Romos katalikų dvasinėje akademijoje XIX amžiaus pabaigoje
The Lithuanian language and its users in St. Petersburg's spiritual academy of Roman Catholics at the end of the 19th century

Summary/Abstract: The issue of the public use of the Lithuanian language at St Petersburg’s Spiritual Academy of Roman Catholics, which operated in 1842–1918, is discussed in a broader context of using Lithuanian in the Catholic Church, its institutions, among clergymen, and in the most general sense, also in the Lithuanian society at the end of the 19th century which was notably under the influence of modern nationalism. The investigation aims at more precisely identifying historical insights, giving a more thorough overview of the Lithuanian language used in public spheres in the cultural and social context of the Academy, evaluating the impact of the expression of modern ethnolinguistic nationalism on the use of Lithuanian and how its public use was moulded by specific conditions of the theological higher educational institution. The paper investigates factors and conditions determining the functioning of the Lithuanian language in the Academy, speculates about the causes of its use or non-use, who its protagonists and antagonists were and why.

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