Mečislovas Davainis-Silvestraitis. Dienoraštis 1904-1912

• Mastianica-Stankevič, Olga, pratarmė, sudarymas [aui, com]
• Venckienė, Jurgita, pratarmė, sudarymas [aui, com]

LTLeidinyje spausdinamas tautosakininko Mečislovo Davainio-Silvestraičio (1849-1919) Dienoraštis, rašytas daugiausia Vilniuje, svarbiu lietuvių tautinio judėjimo laikotarpiu - 1904-1912 m. Davainis-Silvestraitis prisidėjo prie "Vilniaus žinių", pirmojo lietuviško periodinio leidinio Lietuvoje panaikinus spaudos draudimą lotyniškais rašmenimis, leidybos, pirmojo lietuviško "Vilniaus žinių" knygyno darbo, dalyvavo steigiant lietuviškas kultūros ir mokslo draugijas, Lietuvių suvažiavime Vilniuje (1905 m. gruodžio 4-5 d.). Skaitytojui pateikiami istorikės Olgos Mastianicos-Stankevič ir kalbininkės Jurgitos Venckienės įvadiniai straipsniai, Dienoraščio dokumentinis paraidinis perrašąs, kalbiniai, tekstologiniai ir istoriniai komentarai, gausi ikonografinė medžiaga, santrauka anglų kalba, asmenų ir vietų rodyklės. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Mečislovas Davainis-Silvestraitis; Etnografai; Tautosakininkai; Atsiminimai; Dienoraščiai; Mečislovas Davainis-Silvestraitis; Ethnographers; Folklorists; Memories; Diaries.

ENThe name of Mečislovas Davainis-Silvestraitis (later DavainisSilvestravičius, Dovoina-Silvestravičius, Dovoina-Sylvestravyčius, Dovoina-Sylvestravyče, Dovoina-Sylvestravičė [Pol. Mieczysław Apoloniusz Dowojna-Sylwestrowicz], 1849-1919) can be encountered in various Lithuanian historical contexts from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries. He was an avid folklorist and ethnographer who took a deep interest in linguistics, archaeology, anthropology and ethnology, wrote works of literature and publicistic material, released periodicals and participated in political activities. Davainis-Silvestraitis left a significant legacy of manuscripts reflecting his personal life and nationalist public activities. A majority of his manuscripts are kept in the Manuscripts Department at the library of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore, including the "Dienoraštis" [Journal] published in this book. His "Dienoraštis" was written mostly in Vilnius, during an important period in the Lithuanian national movement - between 1904 and 1912. At the beginning of the 20lh century, the Lithuanian intelligentsia sought to establish Vilnius as the organisational centre of the Lithuanian national movement, gathering Lithuanians in this city and ensuring their national advocacy across numerous fields. DavainisSilvestraitis contributed to Vilniaus žinios (1904-1909), the first Lithuanian periodical to be released after the ban on printing using the Latin script was lifted in Lithuania, he participated in the work of the first Lithuanian "Vilniaus žinios" [Vilnius News] bookstore and in the establishment of Lithuanian culture and science societies - the Vilnius Lithuanians' Benefit Society (1904), "Vilniaus kanklės" (1905) and Lithuanian Science Society (1907), he attended Lithuanian theatre performances, public evenings and observed the activities of the first Lithuanian schools in Vilnius.He signed an important early 20th-century Lithuanian national political document "The Lithuanian Memorandum to the Chairman of the Russian Council of Ministers Count Sergei Witte" (5[18] November 1905), which expressed the idea of Lithuania's autonomy based on the Lithuanian nation's right to self-determination and statehood traditions, and also participated in the Great Assembly in Vilnius (21-22 November [4-5 December] 1905), which was attended by representatives of all Lithuanian political streams and parties from all over the country. Davainis-Silvestraitis wrote a thorough account of this gathering in his "Dienoraštis", seeking to document all such expressions of Lithuanian political and cultural thought. Acting as a kind of chronicler of the Lithuanian national movement in Vilnius, he often wrote his Dienoraštis in a laconical tone, keeping to a telegram style and often presenting only factual information. Nonetheless, this lets us evaluate which elements of the Lithuanian national movement he considered to be the most significant, worthy of being recorded and described. Along with the documentary word-for-word copy of the Davainis-Silvestraitis Dienoraštis published in this book, there are also two introductory articles. Olga Mastianica-Stankevič has analysed the language situation of Davainis-Silvestraitis' parents and within his own family, as well as the meanings he attributed to the Lithuanian and Polish languages when selecting and publishing Lithuanian spoken culture works, and when he started collaborating on Aušra (1883-1886) and editing the journal Litwa (1908-1914); it has assessed how Davainis-Silvestraitis, a member of the Lithuanian intelligentsia of noble origins, combined bilingualism in his personal life and public activities.Mastianica-Stankevič's article also takes a separate look at which events and processes in the Lithuanian national movement Davainis-Silvestraitis actually took notice of and described in his "Dienoraštis", what he happened to highlight, and how this "Dienoraštis" revealed the fate of an intellectual whose publishing and publicistic work in Lithuanian periodicals was his only professional activity and sole source of income. [From the publication]

• Etnologija / Ethnology
• Istorija / History

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