SALYS, Antanas (Anthony). 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 of comparative linguistics, Slavic and Lithuanian 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. Professor’s title 1939. 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. Married Sophia (1918–2003), at least one daughter.

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 (in collaboration with A. Senn).

Sources: M. Benson, Lituanus 19, 1973 in www.lituanus.org with photo; W.R. Schmalstieg, Lituanus 38, 1992 (online); findagrave.com with photo; briefly in *Lithuanian and Russian Wikipedia.