SALYS, Antanas. Reketė, North-West Lithuania 21.7.1902— Philadelphia 31.7.1972. Lithuanian IE and Baltic Linguist, later in the U.S.A. Educated in Telsini. Studies at Kaunas and Leipzig (Trautmann). Ph.D. 1929 Leipzig. In 1930-39 PD of IE at Vytautas University in Kaunas, developed experimental phonetics of Lithuanian. In 1941-44 the first Director of the new Institute of Lithuanian Language in Vilnius. In 1944 emigrated to Germany and later to the U.S.A. From 1947 taught at University of Pennsylvania (invited there by A. Senn), from 1956 as Professor of Slavic and Baltic Languages.
Publications: Diss. Die Žemaitischen Mundarten. 1. Geschichte des Žemaitischen Sprachgebiets. 146 p. Kaunas 1929.
– Wrote mainly on Lithuanian and Baltic linguistics, his main work was the great Wörterbuch der litauischen Schriftsprache. 1-5. Heidelberg 1932-68.
Sources: M. Benson, Lituanus 19, 1973 in http://www.lituanus.org/1973/73_1_01.htm with photo; W.R. Schmalstieg, Lituanus 38, 1992 (online); briefly in *Lithuanian and Russian Wikipedia.
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