Alfredas Bumblauskas is a professor at Vilnius University

Vilnius University

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 and one of the best known Lithuania

Lithuania

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n historians.

After graduating from Žemaitė

Žemaite

Žemaitė - a pen name of Julija Beniuševičiūtė-Žymantienė; in Bukantė near Plungė — 7 December 1921 in Marijampolė) was a Lithuanian writer. Born to impoverished gentry, she became one of the major participants in the Lithuanian National Revival...

 school in Telšiai

Telšiai

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, he enrolled in Vilnius University in 1974. Bumblauskas received his doctoral degree in 1987, and was mentored by Edvardas Gudavičius

Edvardas Gudavicius

Edvardas Gudavičius is one of the best known historians in modern Lithuania specializing in early history of Grand Duchy of Lithuania. In 1953 he graduated from Kaunas Polytechnic Institute with a degree in engineering. Gudavičius started his career as a mechanic at one of the factories in Kaunas,...

. He was formerly dean of the Faculty of History and now heads the Department of Theory of History and Cultural History at Vilnius University. He has sponsored and participated in several TV shows about history and culture. Bumblauskas has been a visiting scholar at the University of Helsinki

University of Helsinki

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, the University of Graz

University of Graz

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, and the University of Warsaw

University of Warsaw

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, and is a member of the editorial board of the Przegląd Wschodni.

He is the author of Senosios Lietuvos istorija 1009–1795 (A History of Old Lithuania: 1009-1795) published in Vilnius in 2005.

Awards and prizes

• The Knight's Cross of the Order of Vytautas the Great
  Order of Vytautas the Great
  The Order of Vytautas the Great is the Lithuanian Presidential Award. It may be conferred on the heads of Lithuania and foreign states, as well as their citizens, for distinguished services to the State of Lithuania.-History:...
  
  , Lithuania, 2003
• The Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of Poland
  Order of Merit of Poland
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  , Poland
  Poland
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  , 1999
• Presented with the Lithuanian National Prize of Culture and Art prize, 1998
• Presented with the Simonas Daukantas
  Simonas Daukantas
  Simonas Daukantas or Szymon Dowkont was a Lithuanian writer, ethnographer and historian. One of the pioneers of the Lithuanian national revival, he is credited as an author of the first book on the history of Lithuania written in the Lithuanian language...
  
  prize, 1999