Alfonsas Eidintas

Alfonsas Eidintas (born 4 January 1952 in Vaiguva, Kelmė District Municipality, Lithuania) is a historian, diplomat and novelist. He was Lithuania's ambassador to various countries.

Scholar Between 1969 and 1973, Alfonsas Eidintas studied history at Vilnius Pedagogical University. He went to serve as chief lecturer, docent, head of the Universal History Department, and Deputy Dean at that institution. From 1986 to 1993, he was the Deputy Director for Research at the Lithuanian Institute of History of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. He received his habilitation in 1990.

Diplomat Eidintas entered the diplomatic service in 1993, serving as Lithuania's ambassador to the United States. He also concurrently served as Lithuania's ambassador to Canada and Mexico. From 2002 until 2005 he served as Ambassador of Lithuania to the State of Israel (with concurrent non-resident accreditation to Cyprus, Ethiopia, and South Africa). From 2006 until 2009 he served as ambassador to Norway, based in Oslo. He also worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most recently as ambassador-at-large at the Foreign Ministry's Information and Public Relations Department. He was a lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science.

Author He had authored over 20 books and at least 50 scientific articles about Lithuanian history and politics and published works of historic fiction: Ieškok Maskvos sfinkso ("In Search of the Moscow Sphinx"), Erelio sparnų dvelksmas, and Aukštai šaltos žvaigždės.

Personal life Eidintas is married; wife Birutė, a teacher. Daughters Aistė and Monika Albina, son Donatas.