Konfesinis Antano Baranausko lietuviškosios kûrybos ištaku aspektas
The confessional aspect of Antanas Baranauskas' creative activity in Lithuanian

Summary/Abstract: Antanas Baranauskas (Antoni Baranowski, 1835-1902) was a Catholic priest, a Lithuanian poet, a specialist in Lithuanian philology, a professor of the Catholic seminary of the Samogitian (Lowland Lithuanian) diocese, and the bishop of the Seinai diocese. Generally scholars and critics have underlined two aspects of Baranauskas' personality and his creative activity in Lithuanian: national and social. This article deals with the third "confessional" aspect of his creativity and with the religious inducement to write in Lithuanian. The status of the Catholic Church in the Russian Empire and in the Samogitian diocese, and the analysis of Baranauskas' works lead us to think that his poetry and philology in Lithuanian was influenced by the process of revival of the Catholic Church, which began in Western Europe after the Napoleonic wars and the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815).

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