Jonas Totoraitis
{{short description|Lithuanian Roman Catholic priest and historian}}
Jonas Totoraitis (24 December 1872 – 21 June 1941){{cite web|url=http://www.lnb.lt/lnb/selectPage.do?docLocator=121&inlanguage=en|publisher=Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania|title=Personal Archives|access-date=2009-02-08|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070808101913/http://www.lnb.lt/lnb/selectPage.do?docLocator=121&inlanguage=en|archive-date=2007-08-08}} was a Roman Catholic priest and historian.
Education
Totoraitis studied at the Theological Seminary of Sejny. He went on to Freiburg University in Switzerland, where he published his doctoral dissertation on the life of King Mindaugas, Die Litauer unter dem König Mindowe bis zum Jahre 1263, the first such work by a Lithuanian scholar.{{cite book|first=Artūras|last=Dubonis|title=Mindaugo knyga: istorijos šaltiniai apie Lietuvos karalių|chapter=Belated Praise for King Mindaugas of Lithuania|publisher=Lithuanian Institute of History|year=2005|chapter-url=http://www.istorija.lt/html/body_mindaugo2005_belated.html|isbn=9986-780-68-3|pages=17–22|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928105727/http://www.istorija.lt/html/body_mindaugo2005_belated.html|archive-date=2011-09-28}}
Work
After returning to Lithuania he continued his historical researches and pastoral work, directed the Marian gymnasium in Marijampolė, and taught at Vytautas Magnus University.
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Category:20th-century Lithuanian historians
Category:19th-century Lithuanian Roman Catholic priests
Category:20th-century Lithuanian Roman Catholic priests