Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša

Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša (1836 May - 1890) was a Lithuanian poet, translator, participant of 1863 Uprising.

Biography

Edvardas Daukša was born in Biržai and studied in local gymnasium, later in Slutsk. He enrolled to the University of Moscow, later moved to the University of Tartu. Until 1860 studied philology at the University of Königsberg. From 1861 lived in Vilnius, participated in 1863 Uprising. For the participation in the uprising was sentenced to 16 years of penal labour.

Edvardas Jokūbas Daukša translated numerous works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, George Gordon Byron and others. He wrote grammar of Lithuanian language Trumpa kalbmokslė liežuvio lietuviško (around 1856).