Institution

Vytautas Magnus University

1922 · 20th century

Vytautas Magnus University is a university in Kaunas, founded in 1922 as the University of Lithuania and renamed in 1930 after the medieval grand duke Vytautas the Great. As the main university of interwar Lithuania it trained the national elite while Vilnius was under Polish rule. Reorganised into separate institutes under Soviet rule in 1950, it was re-established in 1989.

Vytautas Magnus University
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Vytautas Magnus University. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/vytautas-magnus-university
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