Jurate Rosales
{{Short description|Amateur historian (1929–2023)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Jurate Rosales
| image = Jurate statkute de rosales.jpg
| birth_name = Jūratė Regina Statkutė de Rosales
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1929|09|09}}
| birth_place = Kaunas, Lithuania
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|2023|09|04|1929|09|09}}
| death_place = Caracas, Venezuela
| nationality = Lithuanian
| occupation = Teacher, journalist
}}
Jūratė Regina Statkutė de Rosales (9 September 1929 – 4 September 2023) was a Lithuanian-born Venezuelan journalist and amateur historian. She published studies in Venezuela, Spain, the United States, and Lithuania in which she claims that the Goths were not a Germanic but a Baltic people.
Biography
Jūratė Regina Statkutė de Rosales was born on 9 September 1929 in Kaunas, Lithuania, and lived with her parents, at least partly in Paris, until 1938. Her father, Jonas Statkus, was head of the State Security Department of Lithuania until he was arrested on 6 July 1940 along with Augustinas Povilaitis, General Kazys Skučas, and several other high officials after the Soviet ultimatum to Lithuania. He was sent to Butyrka prison in Moscow where it is presumed he died on an unknown date.
After the end of the Second World War, Rosales moved to France where she learned Latin and French, receiving a degree as a teacher of French. She continued her studies at Columbia University in New York, where she taught English, Spanish, and German. In 1960 she married Venezuelan engineer Luis Rosales; they raised five children—Luis, Juan, Sarunas, Rimas, and Saulius—in a multi-lingual household, using both Spanish and Lithuanian. Starting in 1983 she held the position of editor-in-chief of the Venezuelan opposition magazine Zeta, in addition to writing for Venezuelan daily paper El Nuevo País and the Cleveland-based Dirva.{{Cite book|title=Godos y Bálticos|last=Rosales|first=Jurate|publisher=Vydunas Youth Foundation|location=Chicago|language=es}} She held an honorary doctorate from the Lithuanian University of Educational Sciences.{{Cite web|url=http://on.lt/rosales2011lietuvoje|title=Sava Lietuva: Rosales viešnagė Lietuvoje|last=Rosales|first=Jūratė|website=on.lt|language=lt|access-date=24 March 2018}}
Rosales died in Caracas on 4 September 2023, at the age of 93.[https://www.tv3.lt/naujiena/gyvenimas/liudna-zinia-mire-garsi-lietuvos-zurnaliste-istorike-n1257577 Liūdna žinia: mirė garsi Lietuvos žurnalistė, istorikė] {{in lang|lt}}[https://www.15min.lt/naujiena/aktualu/lietuva/liudna-zinia-mire-garsi-lietuviu-zurnaliste-ir-istorike-jurate-statkute-de-rosales-56-2107330 Liūdna žinia: mirė garsi lietuvių žurnalistė ir istorikė Jūratė Statkutė de Rosales] {{in lang|lt}}
Hypothesis on the Goths being Baltic
Rosales published studies in the United States, Spain, Venezuela, and Lithuania supporting the idea that the Goths were a Baltic, not Germanic people. Rosales traced her research on the controversial hypothesis back to 17th-century Prussian scholar Matthäus Prätorius who is thought to have first proposed the idea, which was supported by several Lithuanian historians including Simonas Daukantas and Česlovas Gedgaudas as well as linguist Kazimieras Būga.{{cite book|last=Rosales |first=Jurate |title=Los godos (2 Vol.) |language=es |year=1999 |publisher=Ariel |location=Barcelona |isbn= 9788434467170}}
The idea has been heavily criticized by other academics such as Zigmas Zinkevičius as pseudohistory primarily driven by nationalist, not academic concepts.{{Cite book|title=Jūratė Statkutė de Rosales ir gotų istorija|last=Zinkevičius|first=Zigmas|publisher=Lithuanian Academy of Sciences|year=2011|volume= 4|pages=472–475 |url=http://www.lmaleidykla.lt/ojs/index.php/lituanistica/article/download/2177/1068}} Professors Alvydas Butkus and Stefano M. Lanza make similar criticisms of her methodology, to the point of accusing her of twisting the meaning of sources and using "nonexistent" Lithuanian words.Alvydas Butkus, dr. Stefano M. Lanza, "Kaip baltai tampa gotais", Voruta Nr.24[738], 2011.12.23 ir Nr.1(739), 2012 01 07; "How Balts become Goths". http://alkas.lt/2012/01/28/a-butkus-s-m-lanza-kaip-baltai-tampa-gotais/ In response to Butkus and Lanza, de Rosales pointed out they lacked depth of knowledge when analysing her texts and that they only focused on one page of the book, ignoring the rest.{{Cite web|last=Rosales|first=Jūratė|date=30 January 2012|title=Kaip tėvynė tampa svetima|url=https://on.lt/kaip-tevyne-tampa-svetima|access-date=18 September 2020}}
References
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Bibliography
- {{Cite book|last=Rosales|first=Jurate|title=Los godos|publisher=Ariel|year=2004|isbn=9788434467170|location=Barcelona|language=es}}
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Category:Lithuanian emigrants to Venezuela
Category:Linguists from Lithuania
Category:Venezuelan women journalists