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Marija Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė

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Marija Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė
Born
Marija Rudzinskaitė

(1885-07-16)16 July 1885
Šaravai, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire
Died8 May 1941(1941-05-08) (aged 55)
Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR, USSR
Resting place
Saulė Cemetery
Academic background
Education
Academic work
Institutions

Marija Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė (née Rudzinskaitė; 16 July 1885 – 8 May 1941) was a Lithuanian Orientalist, Egyptologist, writer, translator and educator.

Early life and education

Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė was born Marija Rudzinskaitė on 16 July 1885 in Šaravai, Kovno Governorate (present-day Lithuania).[1][2] From a Polish-speaking minor noble family, Rudzinskaitė was the sister of the agronomist Dionizas Rudzinskas [ru].[1][3]

Educated at a Gymnasium in Kaunas, Rudzinskaitė later settled in Moscow.[1] Completing a teacher training course in 1904, Rudzinskaitė enrolled in the Higher Women's Courses and graduated with a Diploma of Higher Education in 1908.[1] In 1910, Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė travelled with the Moscow Archaeological Commission, via Constantinople, to Egypt and Palestine.[1] By 1912, Rudzinskaitė was studying at Imperial Moscow University where she attended lectures on Egyptology by Boris Turayev.[4][1][2] During this period Rudzinskaitė took teaching jobs, and published the brochure Constantinoplе (Russian: Константинопол) in 1915 for the War and Culture series of the Historical Commission of the Society for the Dissemination of Technical Knowledge.[a][1][6][5] Thought to have married around 1915, Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė was widowed shortly afterwards.[1] On 26 November 1916, Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology with a master's diploma in world history.[1][5]

Career

Returning to Kaunas in 1918, Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė began working as a teacher.[1][5][6] Appointed as an associate professor at Vytautas Magnus University on 1 July 1922, Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė founded a course on history of Ancient Egypt.[2][5][6] Initially giving her lectures in Russian, from 1924 onwards Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė taught in Lithuanian.[1] A period of bad health forced her to leave the position at Vytautas Magnus University in 1925, but she returned in 1929.[1][5]

The same year Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė returned to Egypt and Palestine, where she began to cultivate her collection of Ancient Egyptian artefacts.[2][7] The collection, used for teaching purposes, was made up of 23 Egyptian antiquities including mummified remains and sarcophagi.[2][7] Fearing that the collection would be nationalised by Soviet authorities during the 1940 Soviet occupation, Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė transferred the collection to the Kaunas Museum of Culture.[2]

Visiting Egypt for the third time in 1934, Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė published the first Lithuanian textbook of Egyptology in 1936.[5] Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė also translated works of Ancient Egyptian literature into Lithuanian.[2] In January 1940, despite being in poor health, Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė began working at the University of Vilnius.[5][6]

Personal life

Through her brother Dionizas, Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė was the aunt of the actress Janina Rudzinskaitė-Dautartienė [lt].[3] On 8 May 1941, Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė died in Vilnius aged 55.[4][1] Buried at Saulė Cemetery, the wooden cross which marked her grave was damaged and location of her grave was ultimately lost during the Nazi occupation.[4] Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė's grave was later reused.[4]

In 2024, a sarcophagus-shaped cenotaph by Ksenija Jaroševaitė [lt] was erected at Saulė Cemetery in her memory.[4]

Publications

  • Rudzinskaya, M. A. (1915). Константинопол [Constantinoplе]. War and Culture, 44 (in русский). Moscow: Historical Commission of the Society for the Dissemination of Technical Knowledge.[1]
  • Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė, M. (1932). Senovės Rytai. D. 1: Egipto Ieroglifai. Kaunas.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė, M. (1932). Senovės Rytai. D. 2: Moters būklė senovės Egipte: (pirmoji moteris soste – faraonė Chatšepsut). Kaunas.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė, M. (1933). Senovės Rytai. D. 3: Tut–Anch–Amono kapas ir Tebų paminklai. Kaunas.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė, M. (1934). Senovės Rytai. D. 4: Vardo reikšmė senovės Egipte. Kaunas.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė, M. (1936). Senovės Rytų istorija. T. 1: Aigiptas. Kaunas: V. D. Universiteto Humanitarinių mokslų fakultetas.

Notes

  1. ↑ Also cited as being published in 1914.[5] Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė is also cited as publishing a second brochure Egypt (Russian: Египта) in 1914[5] however, Aldona Snitkuvienė of the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum posits that this brochure was in fact written by Semion Narkiryer in 1915.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 Snitkuvienė, Aldona (2009). "Marija Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė's contribution to Egyptology (in commemoration of the 125th anniversary of the scholar's birth)" (PDF). Acta Orientalia Vilnensia. 1–2 (10). Translated by Korostenskaja, Julija. Vilnius: Vilnius University Press: 181–207. doi:10.15388/AOV.2009.3664. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 "Marija Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (in lietuvių). Vilnius: Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Centre. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Dionizas Rudzinskas". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (in lietuvių). Vilnius: Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Centre. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 "Surasta pirmosios Lietuvoje egiptologės palaidojimo vieta: įamžinta sarkofago formos kenotafu". National Museum of Lithuania (in lietuvių). Vilnius. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 5.8 "Marija Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė". uni100: Lietuvos universiteto kūrėjų palikimo pėdsakais (in lietuvių). Kaunas: Vytautas Magnus University. Archived from the original on 16 March 2026. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Snitkuvienė, Aldona (13 July 2010) [2005]. "Išsipildė Marijos Rudzinskaitės-Arcimavičienės svajonė /120-ąsias egiptologės gimimo metines minint". Lietuvos muziejai (in lietuvių) (1–2). Vilnius: Lietuvos muziejų asociacija; Lithuanian National Museum of Art. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Piombino-Mascali, Dario; Mcknight, Lidija; Snitkuvienė, Aldona; Jankauskas, Rimantas; Tamošiūnas, Algirdas; Valančius, Ramūnas; Rosendahl, Wilfried; Panzer, Stephanie (2015). "From Egypt to Lithuania: Marija Rudzinskaitė-Arcimavičienė's Mummy and its Radiological Investigation". In Ikram, Salima; Kaiser, Jessica; Walker, Roxie (eds.). Egyptian Bioarchaeology: Humans, Animals, and the Environment. Leiden: Sidestone Press. pp. 95–104. Retrieved 27 September 2026.
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