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Pranas Čepėnas
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Pranas Čepėnas (4 April 1899 in Veleikiai, Kovno Governorate – 3 December 1980 in Worcester, Massachusetts) was a Lithuanian historian, encyclopedist, journalist, and lexicographer. In 1926 Čepėnas earned a diploma in history from University of Lithuania. He worked as professor of history at Vilnius University. During World War II he emigrated to Germany and later to the U.S.
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Major works
- Editor of interwar Lietuviškoji enciklopedija (Lithuanian Encyclopedia) and Dictionary of International Words.
- Naujųjų laikų Lietuvos istorija vol I and II (1988), English: History of Lithuania in Modern Times
- Editor of Lietuviškoji enciklopedija printed in Boston.
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