Janis Endzelynas mokinių ir bendradarbių atmintyje

vo The vocabulary a large fiber of su sheets with carefully written interesting sentences. The number of such leaflets Grinaveckienė has presented about 30 000. The iš words she collected alone would make a large volume of a dictionary. Many of her written words have entered į Printed volumes of the Lithuanian Language Dictionary. A lot will jų be used for ir Vocabulary additions. Her words collect all iš Lithuania, iš all Lithuanian-speaking parishes. But, of course, mostly iš He spent his ji vacations in Jurbarkas, where many of his admirers ją knew him. ir The dictionary will miss such a word picker… That a talented and hard-working man gave a lot to the study of Lithuanian language is not surprising. But it is ar possible to imagine that most of his works Grinaveckienė performed an already tormented incurable illness. Every step she took was unbearably painful for her. Carrying her suffering, she went and went through Lithuania, to Lithuanians... until she was sheltered by the graves of Jurbarkas visible from her native home. Jonas Paulauskas JANIS ENDZELYNAS STUDENTS IR COOPERATION IN MEMORY Janis Endzelins atminas, for sale, vestulės. Sast. Clear Barbara, Brigita Bushman. Red. col. B. Bušmane, A. Stafecka, V. Skujina (editor), M. Stengrevica. Riga, 1999: Latviešu valodas institūts, 323 p. The Institute of Latvian Language has published an interesting book of memoirs about the most famous Latvian language researcher Janis Endzelyns, whom Lithuanian linguists have called the Latvian giant, as mentioned in this book. It contains the memoirs of almost forty authors. The eldest of them, Mėrija Saulė-Sleinė, born at the end of the last century, met J. Endzelynas in her youth and spent together the last years of his life, the youngest, among others, the head of the editorial board of the book, Valentina Skujinia, who congratulated the linguist with a delegation of students on the occasion of his 85th birthday and carried one of the letters in the funeral procession. iš jo orders. It can be said that in all his memoirs J. Endzelynas emerges as an extraordinary personality. Everyone was impressed by his legendary punctuality, the fact that he read contentious lectures without any notes, strict exams, intolerance of any language errors (even the slightest dialects) and no compromise with any authorities. Especially a lot of interesting information ne just about J. Endzelynas’ personaliir ty, but also the whole cultural life of Latvia, first of all the university and his professorship, can be found in the memoirs of Karlis Dravinš, his wife Velta Rūke-Dravinš, and Rūdolfs Grabis (the latter have already been partly published in the book dedicated to R. Grabis, Savai valodai, Riga, 1997). 224 The book reveals the tragic pages of postwar Latvian linguistics. Before J. He is the main target of Marxist critics. Į even the Komsomol organization gets involved in the fight ir against the scientist. He is forced to leave the university. The printer almost destroys the almost completed Latvian text of the “Lettische Grammatik”. (Irony of fate: in 1958, J. Endzelyn was awarded the Lenin Prize! ). In 1952, Arvīds Pelše, the leading Soviet ideologue of Latvian, published an article entitled “The Situation of Latvian Linguistics and the Tasks of the Republic’s Linguists”, in which he despised the famous linguist and his school. And, of course, it becomes sad when we learn from the memoirs published in the book that Evaldas Sokolas, the long-time director of the Institute of Language and Literature, who “crushed” J. Endzelynas on several occasions, was himself tortured in Yežovo prisons. Unfortunately, this communist idealist fell ir into the disgrace of the authorities į at the end of his life. There are more funny ir places in the book. Here it is. J. Endzelynas 1934 m. examines university į applicants (including jų ir V. Smoker, the future V. Smoke-Dravinia). In Latvia ką only coup po came to į power Karlis Ulmanis. The iš professor of one of the examiners suddenly asks, "What do you know about Karl Ulman?" He, barely recovering his breath, pulls out the biographical data of the Latvian president. “I am not asking you about this Karl Ulmanis,” interrupts J. Endzelynas. He allegedly wanted to find out what the future student knew about the 19th century Latvian lexicographer Carlisle Christiana. Ulman. Or here Karlis Dravinis, į who came to the exam in military po uniform, strikes the examination officer with his heels, raises his hand to his head with a sudden movement, and only when he sees smiles in the auditorium he notices that he has no hat… When at the meeting of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Language and Literature one of the members of the Council, in opposition to J. Endzelynas, points out that Janis Loja also thinks so, and that this “is a professor and an old well-known linguist”, J. Endzelynas angrily replies to his opponent: “That he is old, there is no doubt about that, but that he is also a well-known linguist, is not known”. Can't stop weaving J. Endzelyno correspondence su with the found Students jo in Siberia. He did not shy away su from corresponding with them, sending them his books, even money. When one of his students, who had returned from the Far East, wanted to thank him for his moral and material support, the professor only smiled, nodded and said, “I don’t remember—I’- ve forgotten. I'm glad to see you." When the translator Milda Grynfelde, returning from the Taišet camp, borrowed a considerable sum of money from J. Endzelynas to buy a house and later wanted to pay it back, he refused the money. For Lithuanian readers, it is interesting that former students of J. Endzelynas in their letters are pleased that in exile they have learned a lot of Lithuanian language, write that Latvian schools should get more acquainted with Lithuanian literature and not be satisfied only with Lithuanian folk songs, as has been the case so far. J. Endzelynas, replying to one of the exiled women’s letters, adds: “Your appearance (the correspondent had sent J. Endzelynas a photo of herself. —A. S.) and the fact that you can devote time to Lithuanian 225 language ir Salome It's not about poetry, it's about thinking that now you can ne only exist, but live." ir Or here's a be translator of tragic fate, a polyglot Silvija Cousin, du sometimes exiled į Siberia, escaped from arrest ir in Lithuania, gets a task To arrange books published in foreign languages in the Scientific Library of Tomsk University. In the basement of ji the library, she sees a huge pile of moldy, spider-webbed books (it seems to her that there may be about 10 thousand, and according to the director's calculations, thousands of books). — 20-30 When you start handling this “a heap of manure”, the Latvians’ attention is drawn to the second volume of Krišjānis Barons’ “Latvian Songs” published in 1903. Of course, she cannot stand not to read a book so dear to her heart in distant exile. She is surprised by the "caringly finely handwritten notes in the book, which testify that the reader of the songs was a linguist." There are also several fragments of paper that help her to finally clarify that the author of these remarks is Kazimieras Būga'. The author of this review recalls when in 1961 professors Boris Larin and Kostas Korsakas discussed his article about a recently deceased Latvian linguist. They advised the young author to include some critical remark in the article. B. Larin, half jokingly, said: "What do you —in the sun and there are spots." Reading the memoirs, we could also find such “spots” in Janis Endzelynas’ life path. He did not always agree with his colleagues- ." Somehow he did not want younger linguists to take doctoral examinations. Many were surprised when Alvils Augstkalnis, considered by his friends and colleagues as a brilliant speaker, failed one of his doctoral examinations. It is quite contradictory, one could say, the appearance of Edytė Hauzenberga-Šturma, the main assistant of J. Endzelynas. The strange relationship of the famous linguist with his brother. His family life was very complicated. However, these "stains" cannot by any means obscure the greatness of Janis Endzelynas as a scientist." Algirdas Sabaliauskas! In 1919-1920 he was professor in Tomsk. * “It is safe to say that more could have been achieved and done in the study of the Latvian language and in the accumulation of material if Endzelynas, the most important pillar and column in this field, had been able to find a little more common ground with his other colleagues- ,” —K. Dravinis. 3 A. Augstkalnis poured petrol on himself and burned himself in 1940. When V. Rūkė-Dravinia informed J. Endzelyn of this tragic news, he whispered: "At least he would have thought about his children." *It is very unfortunate that due to spelling issues, the article “Endzelins un vina dzimta” (Endzelins and his family) by Rasma Grysle was not published in this book. This article contains interesting facts about the great-grandfathers of the famous linguist, his descendants, and the origin of his surname (all three brothers have different spelling of their surnames, the surname comes from the Low German Hanselin — the diminutive form of the word Hans ‘John’, which meant not only ‘John’ but also ‘little finger’). R. Grysle’s article was later published in the newspaper “Briva Latvija” (8. May to 14 May, No. 18(607)), see p. A. Mieze, R. Grisle. The victory of the Endzelin family. —Ibid., 3-9, 1998. Jan. No. 1 (542). 226