Jurgio Ambraziejaus Pabrėžos "Taislius augyminis". Atminimo ženklai

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Lietuvos XIX a. istorija; Medicina; Botanika; Dvasininkai; Augalai; Rankraščiai. Keywords: The Lithuanian XIX c. history; The Medicine; The Botany; Manuscripts.

ENThis year we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of the Franciscan priest Jurgis Ambraziejus Pabrėža (1771-1849). Although he chose the road of spiritual service, his whole life he was interested in plants, their species, and their medicinal qualities. In the first half of the 19th c., he wrote in Samogitian (the northern Samogitian Kretinga dialect) the first comprehensive and systematic work on botany - Taislius augyminis. The manuscript of this work was written over eight years (1835-1843), with a 1042-page manuscript surviving to our time, and it included a total of 801 plant genus. The whole text of this work was published only in the early 21st c.; it introduces both the origins of Lithuanian botanical science and the language of that time. Many of the plants described by Į. A. Pabrėža are currently included in the national plant genetic resources list (ANGI). [From the publication]

• Etnologija / Ethnology
• Istorija / History