Alfredas Bumblauskas

Alfredas Bumblauskas (born 18 November 1956) is a professor at Vilnius University and one of the best known Lithuanian historians, specializing in the research of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Biography

After graduating from Žemaitė school in Telšiai, he enrolled in Vilnius University in 1974. Bumblauskas received his doctoral degree in 1987, and was mentored by Edvardas Gudavičius. He was formerly dean of the Faculty of History and now heads the Department of Theory of History and Cultural History at Vilnius University. Bumblauskas also stressed that Algirdas was the creator of the Lithuanian empire who annexed large parts of modern-day Belarus and Ukraine.

Awards and prizes Presented with the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Arts, 1998 The Knights's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, 1998 The Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, 1999 The Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland, 2009 Presented with the Simonas Daukantas prize, Lithuania, 1999 The Knight's Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great, Lithuania, 2003 The Commander's Cross of the Order of the Crown, Belgium, 2006 Order of Orange-Nassau, Netherlands, 2008