A Samogitian who grew up in Lithuania Minor. Book Scientist. He graduated from Vilnius
University (1975), teaches there, Chairman of the Book Science Department of the
Communication Faculty, Professor (1993).
In 1992-95, chairman of the Lithuanian Society of Librarians; since 1989, assistant
chairman of the Lithuanian Book Society; in 1993-95, chairman of the Martynas Mažvydas
Book Lovers Club; since 1993, member of the National
Council of the International Book Publishing Project
"Bibliotheca Baltica"; since 1995, secretary of the State Commission for the Commemoration of the 450th
Anniversary of the First Lithuanian Book; in 1978-90, executive secretary of the
scholarly work "Knygotyra"; since 1990, editor-in-chief. Chairman of the
editorial board of the Book Science Encyclopedic
Dictionary (1997). Editor-in-chief ot the YEAR OF THE LITHUANIAN BOOK.
Expert member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (1996). He works mainly in the field
of book history. He has about 100 scholarly publications in Lithuanian and other
languages. He has published these books (in Lithuanian): "From Lithuanian Book
History - The Lithuanian Book in the Klaipėda Region Before 1919" (1986), "The
Presses of Lithuania Minor, 1524-1940" (1987), "The Libraries of Lithuania Minor
(Before 1940)" (1987), "The Forerunner of Lithuanian Periodicals" (1991),
"The Bookstores of Lithuania Minor" (1992), "The Book Lovers of the Land of
Donelaitis" (1993), "One of the People of the Newspaper Aušra: Jurgis Mikšas,
Founder of the Press of the National Rebirth" (1996); "The Book of Lithuania Minor: The Development of
the Lithuanian Book, 1547-1940" (1996), "The Woman of Klaipėda"
(1997); he was co-author of the monograph "The
Lithuanian Book" (1996). He compiled and edited an anthology of the Lithuanian
poetry of Lithuania Minor, "Like a Mighty Oak on the Nemunas" (1986). Domas
Kaunas was awarded the 1994 Science Prize of the Lithuanian Republic for his work on the
history of the Lithuanian press of Lithuania Minor. In 1995 his manuscript "The Book
of Lithuania Minor, 1547-1940" was awarded the Dr. Vydūnas Prize of the Lithuania
Minor Fund (Canada); he won the Ieva Simonaitytė Literary Prize (1998).
Office address:
Universiteto 3, LT-2734 Vilnius, LIETUVA
Phone.: (370 2) 769 368, 768 953
Fax: (370 2) 768 957
