Keletas smulkmenų Jurgio Gerulio biografijai

LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE: RESEARCHERS AND STUDIES Algirdas SABALIAUSKAS * A FEW LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE: RESEARCHERS AND STUDIES Algirdas SABALIAUSKAS * A FEW LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE: RESEARCHERS AND STUDIES Algirdas SABALIAUSKAS * A FEW LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE: RESEARCHERS AND STUDIES Algirdas SABALIAUSKAS * A FEW LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE: RESEARCHERS AND STUDIES Algirdas SABALIAUSKAS * A FEW LITHUANIAN LANGUAGE: RESEARCHERS AND STUDIES Both of his parents were Lithuanians. However, in J. Gerulio childhood, the unstoppable wave of Germanization had already reached the village of Jogaudai. This process has been described in detail by Gerulis himself in his article "Mother tongue and bilingualism in one village of Prussian Lithuania" (Gerullis 1932: 59—67). In 1914, about 55 percent of the "Lithuanians" and 45 percent of the "Germans" lived in the village of Jogaudai. Less than twenty years later, only three grandparents could be assigned to "Lithuanians". All other villagers have already become "Germans". At the age of five, Gerulis and his mother began to read German elementary texts and Martin Luther's Catechism. At the age of six, he was already enrolled in a German village school. Gerulis spoke only Lithuanian with his parents, but with his brother he also spoke German. The children still pray and later write letters to their parents in Lithuanian, although religion lessons are already in German everywhere. According to the old tradition, Gerulio father did not want to split his farm. Therefore, one of the sons had to get a farm, and the other, in this case George, had to choose one of two ways — "digging coal" or going to school. “Jurgis Gerulis decided to choose the latter path. In 1909 he graduated from Tilžės classical gymnasium and began studying African studies at the University of Karaliaučius. However, Professor Adalbert Bezzenberger persuades him to devote himself to Baltic studies. Gerulis also studied comparative linguistics and classical languages in Berlin, where his principal teacher was the famous Indo-Europeanist Wilhelm Schulze. In 1912, Gerulis received his doctorate from the University of Karaliaučius for his dissertation "De Prussicis Sambiensium locorum nominibus" ("On the Prussian names of places in Zambia") written in Latin. It should be noted that Gerulis' university studies lasted only three years. This is indeed a rare case in the biography of a scholar of philology. So part of the father's plan has already been accomplished. However, it would not have been necessary to divide the Teviškės anyway, because Gerulio brother Heinrich was killed in 1918 on the Western Front (Moislains and Perronne), when there were two months left until the end of the war. In memory of his brother, Jurgis Gerulis dedicated one of his best works "Old Prussian Place Names" (” Die | 1 J. Gerulis has explained that in German he wrote ll in his surname because the Germans would not pronounce it Gerulis. 12 old Prussian place names”. Berlin and Leipzig, 1922). The First World War also left its mark on Jurgis Gerulis’ life. He fought on both the Eastern and Western Fronts. He fought on the front lines and was wounded several times. He commanded a machine gun battalion. He was awarded the highest German military award, the Iron Cross. The handsome guard officer of the crown prince, fighting on Latvian territory, learns not only the Latvian language, but also falls in love with the daughter of a Latvian German nobleman, who later, becoming Gerulis’ wife, will constantly remember his father’s lost estates and will not feel any sympathy for the Baltic lands, especially Latvia. She will repeatedly state that the Eitkūnai's feet will never move further. Even the map of Latvia in her husband's office will annoy her: "so big a map of such a small country". After the war, Gerulis returned to Karaliaučius University. As soon as Kaunas University was established, he was invited to become a professor at this Lithuanian higher education institution, mainly on the initiative of Kazimieras Buga. Here is an evaluation of Gerulis's scientific activity, signed by K. Būga, Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius and Eduardo Volteri on March 2, 1922, and undoubtedly written by K. Būga ("Short evaluation of the writings of Dr. phil. Jurgis Gerulis"): "Since the end of the war, Gerulis has been leading the Lithuanian language seminary at Karaliaučius University and, as a private lecturer, has been teaching the compulsory courses from the comparative language course assigned by the faculty. Last autumn he was invited as a professor to the Department of Comparative Linguistics at the University of Hamburg. At the beginning of February this year, the University of Leipzig offered him an extraordinary position in Baltic (Aestian) languages. Gerulis declined these two proposals, believing that he would be useful to the young Lithuanian university, which needed good and diligent researchers more than the old German universities. It is important for our university to have Gerulis, not only because he is a Lithuanian linguist, but also because he is a great lasik as. Gerulis, whom we will soon have as a professor for the Latin and Greek philology departments, will be able to give lectures not only in the field of comparative linguistics, but also to perform the duties of a temporary professor of Latin and Greek philology |...] Gerulis has so much merit for language science that he is worthy to be professor of our young university” (Žukas 1990: 44—46). Unfortunately, Gerulis nevertheless chose not the young Kaunas University, but the old University of Leipzig. It is possible that the last role was played by the wife, who did not want to ne jo "hereinafter referred to as "Legs of the Dead". Anyway, ar the Leipzig period in scientific He was very successful in his work. He published many of his most important works at this time, contributed a great deal to Baltic o linguistics, especially Lithuanian studies, and did a great deal of ir pedagogical work. After all, at the time Leipzig Gerulis finished his linguistics studies later University of Kaunas John Jablonskį ir Kazimierą Buga replaced du our famous linguists Antanas Country ir Pranas Coffins. Gerulis took great care of these talented students. Some of his Lithuanian studies courses he taught only to these two "future Lithuanian professors" ("künftige litauische Professoren" ). T Professorship In Leipzig, Gerulis ir continued to deepen his linguistic studies. For example, he persuaded the famous German phoneticist Eduard Sievers, 13 who was already retired, that he would give A. Saliui and Pr. Skardžiui would teach an experimental phonetic course. At least du semesters every Sunday Gerulis su with both his disciples went to Sieversa, where they spent a couple of hours discussing Lithuanian dialects and accents. Jų The discussions were particularir ly interesting and successful, because all three participants in these discussions were representatives of different dialects: Gerulis — western highland, Skardžius — eastern sub-Athenian, Salys — Žemaitijos salantiškis. Sievers’ seminars were the beginning of Gerulis’ later researches on the phonetics of the Lithuanian language (Skardžius 1968: 215—216)*. For several summers, Gerulis travelled around Lithuania studying Lithuanian dialects. He used to joke that when "the gentlemen of Kaunas warm their buttocks in Palanga", he walks around the villages with a backpack on his shoulders and collects facts about Lithuanian language. Together with the renowned Norwegian Baltist Christian S. Stange, Gerulis saved the Lithuanian fishermen- 's dialect of East Prussia, which was almost extinct, for linguistics ("Lietuvių žvejų tarmė Prūsijoje", Kaunas, 1933; description published in German). Together with this Norwegian scholar Gerulis also studied the Lithuanian dialect of the Zietela neighborhood, which was then part of Poland. Unfortunately, Gerulis's written material of this dialect has not survived. However, almost thirty years later (Gerulis and Stangas visited here in 1930) the very valuable results of his research were published by Chr. S. Stangas (Stang 1958: 171—201)'. From the pedagogical activities of Gerulis at that time, it is particularly worth mentioning the dialect study courses in Kaunas organized by the Ministry of Education and led by Gerulis. These courses were organized four times in 1931-1933. They were attended not only by later distinguished Lithuanian philologists — Juozas Balčikonis, Vaclovas Baravykas, Julius Būtėnas, Marija Cilvinaitė, Kazimieras Gasparavičius, Napalis Grigas, Zuzana Jonikaite, Petras Jonikas, Alfonsas Kalnius, Jonas Kruopas, Izabelė Matusevičiūtė, Elzbieta Mikalauskaitė, Jonas Mikeliūnas, Juozas Senkus, Bronė Vosylytė, Aleksandras Zirgulys, but a talented, ir unfortunately, early tragic retired Latvian iš linguist Alvilis Augstkalnis, German linguist who learned Lithuanian from a young age, books " Germanic forms of personal names in ir Lithuanian place names of Klaipėda region" ("The Germans Forms of Lithuanian Ortsund Personal name of the Memelgebiets”. Halle, 1936) author Walter Fenzlau. It should be recalled that J. Gerulio ir Chr. Stango book "Lithuanian fishermen's dialect in Prussia" ir už Gerulis was thanked for his courses by then-Lithuanian President Antanas Smetona. After discussing the significance of dialects for the common language, pointing out that they are rapidly disappearing, urging them to be studied, A. Smetona wrote: "We have our own speakers, ny we have young teachers, spread all over po Lithuania. They are best for talc professor J. Gerulli, willing to teach him how to study dialects. ir It is to be hoped that the task force led by him, a competent scientist, will do a great job, which will serve not only our practical task, but also the science of ne languages." ir (p. III-IV). Unfortunately, after the Nazis came to power in Germany, for political reasons, these courses were not continued. While on the other hand, 1930 m. iš Leipzig į University of Kaunas 2 Plg. t.p. Ms. February 1926 m. in Tin 12 d. message J. Jablonskiui (The letter is stored in the library of the ir Lithuanian Literature Folklore Institute, F 52—252). 3 More about šį the job ple. Vidugiris A. New works on Lithuanian language dialects, Lithuanian linguistics questions, with the 1959, 2, 239—242. 14 return and involvement of A. Salis in the study of Lithuanian language, Lithuanian dialectology was greatly strengthened and it was already possible to translate without help from abroad. Domino J. Gerulis and practical matters of Lithuanian language. In a letter dated November 29, 1922, written to J. Jablonski, he is concerned about the inconsistency of our spelling, urges J. Jablonski and K. Bugas to write a spelling manual, because "a spelling manual, even if imperfect, is much better than one which will appear without a decree, but which will be published in the time of our children's children". He also expresses his opinion on the language of the writings of the time: "You mentioned Žemaitija for that. This is a wife whose writings I really like. It seems that we, the sons of Lesser Lithuania, have many Germanisms in our language, but we can distinguish between what is pure and what is not pure. It is the most commonly spoken language. It is not artificial. When reading Sv. work or any other writing of this day will get sick of unnecessarily newly worked words, syntax, etc. I have to admit, I do not understand what these men are writing: GKOTELVOL elio (dark are they, A. S.). From Žemaitės and Tamstos writings I will teach you to write in real Lithuanian- ". Gerulis, who had initially had a rather negative view of the National Socialist movement, joined their party in 1933 (his wife apparently played an important role in taking this step) and became an active supporter of the disastrous policies of Adolf Hitler. In 1933 he was appointed Minister of Education in Saxony. In the same year, he became director of the Department of Higher Education of the Prussian Ministry of Education. In 1934 Gerulis left this post and returned to the University of Karaliaučius. According to Professor Viktor Falkenhahn, Gerul's student, Gerul did this in protest against the authorities (Falkenhahn 1964: 240). Two other students of Gerulis, A. Salys and Pr. Skardžius claims that the teacher jų "was unable to maintain this position for long due to his military rigour" (A. S. ir P. S. 1956 : 187—188). Soon after, Gerulis was appointed Rector of the University of Karaliaučius. Bet ir iš here for party quarrels moved į Berlin. From 1937 m. he goes He is a full professor at the University of Berlin and the curator of ir the newly established German Ukrainian Research Institute. Involved in political į activities, po 1933 m. Gerulis hardly publishes any more important publications. However, ir at the moment, significant jo pedagogical activity. Be among other things, our future linguists study at the jo University of Berlin under careful supervision Jonas Kabelka, Izabelė Matusevičiūtė, Elzbieta Mikalauskaitė. Close friendships Gerulis was associated su with our literary classic Antanas I'm going down. Si friendship especially strengthened when A. A monk in 1929 m. his travels po Europe during longer time spent Leipzig. The gentleman made it possible for him to listen to some University of Leipzig lectures by professors, use the university library. Together with black traveled po closer ir farther Leipzig surroundings, visited nearby "Schulpforte Gymnasium" (in German). Net The son of Gerulis wanted su A. Monk's sons exchange stamps. Gerulis advises Monk to write a historical novel, but maybe better about ne Vytautas, but about Jogaila: mat A. * The letter is stored in the library of the ir Lithuanian Literature Folklore Institute (F 52—199). 15 The monk will better understand the way of the Highlander, while Vytautas is more of the Lowland. (Gerulis was also concerned about the future of A. Vienuolis' relative, Rapolas Šaltenis, who was still a student at Kaunas University. Having become acquainted with his article "Sturm und Drang", published in "Jaunojoje Lietuva" (1929, No. 8, pp. 17—22), Gerulis tries to make it possible for him to continue his studies at the University of Graz in Austria. In 1926 Gerulis visited A. Vienuolis in Anykščiai (Vienuolis 1988: 95—96, 150—151; 1991 : 166—167; 1994 : 115—116). 111—119, 609—612; Šaltenis 1982: Įvairios progos Gerulis yra padaręs lietuviams ir kitų rūšių paslaugų. President A. Smetona offered Jon Puzina, who had contributed to the preparation of his writings, to study archaeology, promising him a scholarship from the Ministry of Education. Initially, Mr. Puzinas wants to go to Karaliaučiai. But Gerulis advises. avoiding Karaliaučius, because there were unfavorable sentiments against Lithuania and Lithuanians because of the Klaipėda region. On Gerulio’s advice, J. Puzinas went to the University of Heidelberg in 1930 (Mažiulis 1983: 14—15). In general, our famous archaeologist, who, among other things, initially studied philology at the University of Kaunas, has been in quite close contact with Gerulis. Together with Gerulis he recorded facts about Lithuanian dialects. But the most interesting thing is that J. Puzinas was a kind of liaison between Lithuanian President Antanas Smetona and Gerulis. Smetona, like Kazimieras Būga in the past, wanted to persuade Gerulis to move to Kaunas University. On this issue, J. Puzinas and Gerulis negotiated not only in Karaliaučius, but also in Leipzig. Gerulis was offered a higher salary than other professors at Kaunas University, and he was already determined to move to Kaunas. His wife, however, dismantled all plans. Gerulis explained to J. Puzin, that if his wife had been a German from Germany, she probably would not have objected to such a man's move, but she was a Latvian German... J. Puzinas recalls various interesting details from his meetings with Gerulis. When he was rector of Karaliaučius University, Gerulis was proud that the first head of this higher school (then called the Particular School) was a Lithuanian, Abraomas Kulvietis, and the last one was also a Lithuanian, Jurgis Gerulis. When J. Puzinas, still a student, once wanted to visit Gerulis at Karaliaučius University, a guard sitting at the door of his office warned J. Puzinas that the rector was busy: he was the dean of one of the faculties. Mr. Puzin handed over his business card, and the interested man quickly left the office. "A German boy can wait. We have to talk,” said Gerulis (Jankus 1979: 207). He entered World War II as a major in the German Army. He was initially intended to fight on the Western Front, where he was to command an anti-aircraft artillery unit on the famous Siegfried Line. However, he was forced to spend the war on the Eastern Front, where he was appointed to the head of the Eastern Abwehr (the liaison between the army and the National Socialist Party) in 1941. During the war, Gerulis lived mostly in Vilnius. There he occasionally visited the Lithuanian Language Institute, met with his former students, Professor Juozas Balčikonis, younger generation linguists, and offered them dissertation topics. In the library of Vilnius University he finds an important monument of the Latvian language — the manuscript of the Gospels and Epistles * by Georg Elger from 1640. After the war, Gerulis’ wife will hand over this manuscript to Professor Chr. S. Stangis, who gave it to the Latvian philologist Karlis Dravinš, who had been driven back to Sweden by the war storm, and he carefully published it, dedicating it to Gerulis’ memory (Dravinš 1961, 1976). German army officer Gediminas Žukauskas is killed at Lake Ilmenau near Velikije Luki. 16 the ruler's son Herbert, in whom his father had placed so much hope. When the staff of the Lithuanian Language Institute expressed their sympathy to him, Gerulis, looking somewhere in the distance, said that he had already been a German... oh: on the Eastern Front Gerulis also met with V. Falkenhahn, now an interpreter of some German sub-staff. Together black drives to inspect Russian castle hills. When the Germans arrested Balis Sruoga in Vilnius, his wife Vanda Daugirdaitė-Sruogiene turned to J. Gerulis for help. He promised her something. Vincas Krėvė-Mickevičius in a letter (spring 1944) to V. Daugirdaitė-Sruogienė wrote: "I am delighted that there is hope for Bali. If Professor Jurgis said it, I think there is ground to believe. I consider him to be a serious man, and if he said that he was promised, it is quite possible to believe it" (Krėvė 1981: 132). V. Daugirdaitė-Sruogienė recalls in a letter to Algis Samulionis dated 18 July 1979: "In the spring of 1944 I learned that he had come to Vilnius. I was acquainted with him, although very little [...] Where we had met — mists: some sort of room, like some kind of office furniture. He spoke while standing and for a short time. But what he said stuck in my mind and didn't fade away. I remember literally: “It looks like I will soon take Jaeger’s place. Then everything will be different in Lithuania [...] He also told me clearly that when I go to talk to Germans, I must remember that I am "Frau Professor" and I must be proud, not humble [...] su Dalia helped by giving a recommendation that Dalia would be admitted į to the hospital school of the Sisters of Mercy at the University of Greifswald”. J. Gerulis' loyalty to the German authorities probably never vacillated. Ms. Skardžius remembers when Gerulis spoke with indignation about his former student Prana Germantą "Meškauskas?". For this, once committed to working Germans, in ti the years jų of occupation In Lithuania he began to act against them. Pasak Gerulio, he's a real idiot. "This junkerish thinking of the German major, that ir Lithuanian, astonished me somewhat, I did not ir aš answer him anything. But the ši message was fatal: strongly opposed Mobilization of Lithuanian Youth, Pr. Germantas was arrested ir and taken away į Stutthof Concentration Camp” (Carcases 1974 : 323— 324). Once Lithuanian Language Institute Gerulis even argued that the jo disease dė originated ne iš of the word good, but of the German iš personal noun Gerhard (Skardžius 1970 : 270)". > Su introduced the authors of the article A. Samulionis. ® Pranas Germantas (Monson), 1903.XII.3 — 1945.1V.22), a tragic Lithuanian writer Cost Meškausk- (1906—1932) as brother, was gone į Leipzig to study linguistics. But here J. Gerulis advised him to choose a dissertation topic "People. customs in Lithuanian family life”. 1936 m. dissertation defended, but according to Ms. sword, was not satisfied either in the very J. Geruliu, nei propriu a ty 1941. German occupation Lithuania, Pr. Germanus was appointed General Counsel for Education. In this position, he made great efforts to preserve Lithuanian schools, particularly concerned about Education in the Vilnius Region. 1943 m. už resistance to mobilization į German army arrested. Kalintas Vilnius, Kaunas, Tilžė, Karaliaučius, Arianburg prisons, Stutthof concentration camp. Cia especially distinguished himself with ”Valenrodisk twist” when saving prisoners (plg. S. Yla. Human ir predators In the forest of the gods. He died 1991): of a heart attack. His body was cremated at the Crematorium of Stuttgart. But the prisoners stole the ir ashes later buried in one Copenhagen Cemetery. The Lithuanians of Lesser iš Lithuania actually used German Gerhard Lithuanian form Warrior. However, Surnames common in Lithuania Gerūlis, Gerulditis, 17 Nemaža Gerulis has communicsu ated with the famous Latvian Baltist Janiu Angel. He was, as a specialist, highly regarded. “This might be evidenced by such a detail as J. Angels of į your own "Introduction to Baltic Philology" ("Ievads baltu filoloģija- ", Riga, 1945) he added Gerulis' photograph to the list of other prominent Baltists. 1943 m. The good guy has arrived į The Hall of the University of Latvia to welcome J. On the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of Endzelynas (11.22). She arrived very dressed up, dressed in "pheasant clothes" (fazana terpa), apparently a German officer's uniform. J. Endzelynas recalled that this colleague's outfit had scared him jį (Liepins 1991 : 41). As a decent scientist Gerulis sometimes appeared in ir difficult political situations. Kai V. Falkenhahn, investigating J. Bretkūnas’ biography, finds a Latin document showing that Lithuanian East Prussia lived further west than official German science acknowledges, and comes to his dissertation supervisor for advice, who in fact finds a Solomonic solution. Listen, don't write anything about your discovery in your dissertation, but put somewhere a facsimile of the document, the censors will read it, and whoever needs it, will find out the truth... Skardžius sent Gerulis his "Lietuvių kalbos žodžių daryba", in which Gerulis, after thanking the former student for the gift, wrote "Ich bin satt vom Krieg" ("I am sick of war") and added that he would soon retire from the army and take up linguistic work (Skardžius 1970:270). Unfortunately, it was too late." A fairly detailed characteristic of Gerulis was given by Valentinas Gustainis in his memoirs "Be kaltės" (Gustainis 1989: 7—20). Before Hitler came to power, Gerulis had talked to Vincas Kreve-Mickeviciy to go to Munich with a serious Lithuanian delegation to express his sympathy to Hitler, who was still quite isolated at the time, and for this "Hitler would be grateful and, having taken power, would be friendly to Lithuania". However, "that Slavic Kreve-Mickevicius does not understand and does not appreciate such a thing: to go to secretly negotiate about the future with Hitler strictly refused- ". Anyway, V. Gustainis’ national ambition is flattered by the fact that Gerulis always spoke to him only in Lithuanian, even at the university in the German capital. Gerulis had a very sober reasoning about the relations between Lithuania and Poland. He did not agree with the Lithuanian state actors to take back Vilnius by armed means after the Germans attacked Poland, because Lithuania, having lost the war to the Germans, could get the name of aggressor, and for a small nation this is very dangerous. However, if Germany wins the war, Gerulis has a clear picture of Lithuania’s fate: “Our Führer will write a postcard to your Smetona, saying that now there is an organized German Europe and Lithuania is part of it...” ; Probably because of Geruli's political views, his relationship with Max Wasmer also went bad: in Leipzig they were close friends, and in Berlin they did not talk anymore. Mr. Vasmer, as known; remembering the political lessons of Jean Baudouin de Courtenay, the Nazi .in the year of his reign he behaved very honourably. At the end of World War II, Gerulis had been ordered to hold a meeting of the most prominent Lithuanian public figures. The participants of the meeting had again Gerūlskis, place names Geruliai, Gerulaičiai, Geruliškiai show that these words are undoubtedly related to Lithuanian gėras. —The Second World War also affected other prominent German Baltists of Geruli’s generation. Both of his sons were killed by Edward. The only son of Franz Specht was killed on the front. In the winter of 1945, Specht himself was recruited into the army of old men and children, the so-called "folksschturm" troops, and sent to the front, from where he came back to Dresden with his feet frozen. 18 attempt to encourage Lithuanian youth to join the German army. The meeting was scheduled to take place on 5 September 1944 in Kaltinėnai. However, Gerulis and some other participants were injured in the car accident and were taken to hospital (Laurinaitis 1983: 23). | After the Soviet army took Berlin, Gerulis, who was seriously ill at the time, was arrested in his apartment. His further fate is unknown. When the famous Berlin Wall was being built, Professor Falkenhahn, who greatly appreciated and respected Geruli, was still living in West Berlin and working at the Humboldt University in East Berlin. Before moving to East Berlin, he went to say goodbye to his teacher’s wife, but found her already dead… Someone from the neighborhood told Falkenhahn that Gerul’s wife had been visited by a German who had returned from Russia and had been imprisoned somewhere with Gerul. This is where the tragedy of this talented scientist, excellent teacher, according to V. Falkenhahn, the "great Baltic German of Lithuanian-Prussian origin", but a poor politician, ends. Unfortunately, such a tragedy befell not one of the sons of Lithuania Minor. This is also a tragedy brought to our nation by our large neighbors. As mentioned, Gerulis dedicated his "Old Prussian Place Names" to his brother who died in the First World War. There he recorded the words of the seventh-century BC Greek poet, whose elegies raised the spirits of Spartan soldiers: "It is beautiful to meet death in the front line without fighting for a brave man, fighting for his homeland?*. | Gerulis, of course, did not have in mind his brother’s hometown, which was very close to the Nemunas, but the one that poets associate with the Rhine, Elbe, Oder. The work of Jurgis Gerulis was mainly related to this homeland. However, Jurgis Gerulis also deserved much for the region of Nemunas with his works. The people of this country will always be grateful to him for this. Here his memory will perhaps last even longer than in that homeland for which he and his brother "stood up to fight"*?. A. S. and P. S. 1956: Gerulis Jurgis. —Lietuvių enciklopedija, Boston: Lietuvių enciklopedijos leidykla, 7, 187—188. Dravins K. 1961, 1976: Gospels and Epistles translated into Latvian by Georg Elger... ed. by Karlis Dravinš, Lund, 1—2. 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