Awarded Righteous Among the Nations (2015).
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Kazys Grinius
Kazys Grinius was the third President of Lithuania, holding the office from 7 June 1926 to 17 December 1926. Previously, he had served as the fifth Prime Minister of Lithuania, from 19 June 1920 until his resignation on 18 January 1922. He was posthumously awarded the Lithuanian Life Saving Cross for saving people during the Holocaust and was recognised as a Righteous Among the Nations in 2016.
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Born 17 December 1866 · Died 4 June 1950 · Q356670
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2015· 1 entry
2004· 1 entry
Published “An evaluation of detergents for NMR structural studies of membrane proteins” in Journal of Biomolecular NMR — cited 149 times.
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2002· 1 entry
Published “NorA Functions as a Multidrug Efflux Protein in both Cytoplasmic Membrane Vesicles and Reconstituted Proteoliposomes” in Journal of Bacteriology — cited 92 times.
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1996· 1 entry
Published “The SMR family: a novel family of multidrug efflux proteins involved with the efflux of lipophilic drugs” in Molecular Microbiology — cited 232 times.
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1994· 1 entry
Published “Bacterial multidrug resistance is due to a single membrane protein which functions as a drug pump.” in Journal of Biological Chemistry — cited 116 times.
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1992· 1 entry
Published “A staphylococcal multidrug resistance gene product is a member of a new protein family” in Plasmid — cited 105 times.
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1990· 1 entry
His remains were returned and buried near his home village
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1970· 2 entries
Published “Conversion of biomembrane-produced energy into electric form. II. Intact mitochondria” in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics — cited 215 times.
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Published “Conversion of biomembrane-produced energy into electric form. I. Submitochondrial particles” in Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics — cited 281 times.
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1950· 1 entry
Died 1950-06-04.
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1944· 2 entries
With help from his family, Grinius emigrated to the West
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And he emigrated to the United States in 1947
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1942· 1 entry
During Nazi German occupation, Grinius, Konradas Aleksa, and Mykolas Krupavičius signed a memorandum – a protest – against colonization of Lithuania and repressive actions against the local population, including the Jews
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1941· 1 entry
Grinius refused to collaborate with the Germans because of his opposition to the occupation of Lithuania by any foreign power
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1926· 1 entry
Career landmark: President of the Republic of Lithuania (1926–1926).
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1924· 1 entry
Grinius published an article entitled Mūsų rusofilai (Our Russophiles) in which he wrote that, "It's naive to believe that the USSR, which hasn't abandoned in Tsarist Russian imperialism, will give Vilnius to Lithuania",
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1920· 2 entries
Was elected to the city council of Marijampolė, becoming its chairman
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Lithuania (1920–1922).
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1919· 1 entry
Grinius was chairman of the Paris-based Lithuanian Repatriation Commission which helped Lithuanian prisoners of war in Germany return home
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1918· 2 entries
During a Red Army attack, his wife and daughter were murdered by Russian terrorists
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Grinius became a member of the Constituent Assembly as a member of the Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union party
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1917· 1 entry
Grinius, Jonas Jablonskis, and Pranas Mašiotas established the Supreme Council of Lithuanians in Russia in Voronezh, whose purpose was to unite all political parties under a new authority
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1915· 1 entry
And worked there until 1918, firstly at Nalchik and then as head doctor in a war hospital near Grozny
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1909· 1 entry
Along with Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė he edited Lietuvos žinios, and in 1910, he edited Lietuvos ūkininkas with Albinas Rimka
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1908· 1 entry
After which Grinius among many others were arrested and imprisoned in a prison in Kalvarija
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1907· 1 entry
And expanded into as many as twenty-three chapters in the Suwałki Governorate
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1906· 1 entry
A text he wrote entitled "The Correct Land Management in Lithuania" (Teisingas žemės valdymas Lietuvoje) was published as a separate book which contained many ideas that were to be found later in the 1922 Lithuanian land
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1905· 2 entries
Lived in Vilnius, moving back to Marijampolė in 1906 only to be imprisoned along with his wife for two weeks
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A society dedicated to the establishment of schools, pedagogical evening courses, bookstores, distribution of Lithuanian publications, and assisting young students
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1902· 1 entry
Who prepared its program in 1906, as well as writing the program of the Peasant Union
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1899· 1 entry
Their son Kazys (later head of the Lithuanian National Council) was born, and in 1902, their daughter Gražina was born
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1896· 2 entries
Preparing its first newspaper Lietuvos darbininkas and translating the party's program from Polish into Lithuanian
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Was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Democratic Party (LDP) and Lithuanian Popular Peasants' Union (LVLS) party
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1894· 1 entry
Grinius earned a living as a free-for-hire doctor in Marijampolė
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1893· 1 entry
Was elected member of the Varpininkai organization committee
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1892· 1 entry
Was a doctor who treated cholera patients in Minsk
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1888· 1 entry
At the age of twenty-two, along with Vincas Kudirka, Grinius and six others participated in a gathering in Marijampolė, in the so-called first congress of Lithuanian democrats, where they decided to begin the publication
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1887· 1 entry
Grinius began studying medicine at Imperial Moscow University, where he became a member of a secret society of Lithuanian students
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1883· 1 entry
Grinius and future poet Jonas Mačys-Kėkštas published their own newspaper entitled Priešaušris
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1876· 1 entry
At the age of nine, Grinius began to attend the Oszkinie Russian primary school, three months later switching to school in Gudeliai
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1866· 2 entries
Born 1866-12-17.
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Kazys Grinius was born on 17 December 1866, in the village of Selema, then known as Selemos Būda.
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1837· 1 entry
His father, Vincas Grinius (1837–1915) was a farmer who owned 15 hectares of land.
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