Pranas Čepėnas (4 April 1899 in Veleikiai,Čepė Kovno Governorate – 3 December 1980 in Worcester, Massachusetts) was a Lithuanian historian, encyclopedist, journalist, and lexicographer. In 1926 Čepėnas earned a diploma in history from University of Lithuania. He worked as professor of history at Vilnius University. During World War II he emigrated to Germany and later to the U.S.

Major works

Editor of interwar Lietuviškoji enciklopedija (Lithuanian Encyclopedia) and Dictionary of International Words. Naujųjų laikų Lietuvos istorija vol I and II (1988), Editor of Lietuviškoji enciklopedija printed in Boston.

Pranas Čepėnas

External links

Article about his book in Lituanus magazine

1899 births

1980 deaths

People from Zarasai District Municipality

People from Novoalexandrovsky Uyezd

20th-century Lithuanian historians

Historians of Lithuania

Lithuanian encyclopedists

Lithuanian lexicographers

Lithuanian male writers

Vytautas Magnus University alumni

Academic staff of Vilnius University

20th-century lexicographers

Pranas Čepėnas