BASANAVICIUS, JONAS Lithuanian states man, was born in the province of Suwalki in 1851 and edu cated at Mariampol. He then proceeded to Moscow university, where he studied philology, history and medicine. His name was particularly associated with the famous journal Ausra (Dawn), which he issued in East Prussia and smuggled into Lithuania during the last decades of the 19th century. In 1885, however, he was obliged to leave Germany and for many years practised as a doctor in Bulgaria. In 1905, after the Russian Revolution, he was unanimously elected president of the famous Diet of Vilna. He was equally famous as a scholar, and was especially interested in Lithuanian folk-lore. He has been styled the "Patri arch of the Lithuanian Renaissance."