Lietuviai studentai Karaliaučiaus universitete XVI a.–XIX a. pradžioje
Lithuanian Students of Königsberg University from the 16th till the Beginning of the 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article investigates the national identity, background and descent of the students of Königsberg University (Albertina; 1544–1944) who studied there from its foundation until the 19th century. The study aims to define the number of students who came from the most protestant part of Prussia – Lithuania Minor (regions of Klaipėda and Königsberg) and from the Catholic Grand Duchy of Lithuania where the Reformation movement induced some part of the nobility to become protestants, i.e. evangelical Lutherans or reformists. In the years 1544–1800, about three hundred young people from Lithuania Minor and more than 640 from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the majority of them of Lithuanian origin, studied at this university. The research allows to claim that in the period of 1544–1900 the overall number of the students could be estimated as no less than 1040. The majority of graduates from this university of Lithuania Minor became priests, advocates, and supporters of the Lithuanian written language and culture as well as eminent social figures who worked for the sake of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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