Antanas Andrijauskas

Antanas Andrijauskas (born 3 November 1948) is a Lithuanian habilitated doctor and college professor. He is the senior researcher at the Department of Comparative Culture Studies at the Culture, Philosophy, and Arts Research Institute at Vilnius University and the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. Andrijauskas is the president of the Lithuanian Aesthetic Association and a member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences.

Early life and education

Antanas Andrijauskas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, on 3 November 1948. In 1972, he won first place in the International Young Scientists Competition. He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in philosophy in 1978. In 1990, he defended his habilitated doctoral dissertation. From 1981–1982, he studied at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Collège de France, and in 1998, he conducted research at the University of Paris-X Nanterre Centre de Recherches Sur L’art. He has lectured as a visiting professor across the world at other various institutions of higher education.

Career

Andrijauskas is known for his works in the humanities and has authored 28 monographs, 55 compiled books, and over 650 scientific articles in various languages. Additionally, he has founded and is the editor-in-chief of seven academic publications and is a member of the editorial boards of seven Lithuanian and international journals. For the series of scholarly works Comparative Research into Culture, Philosophy, Aesthetics, and Art, he was awarded the National Prize for Lithuanian Scholarship in 2003.