Lithuanian Institute of History
- Lithuanian Institute of History
The Lithuanian Institute of History is a state-funded research institution and the country’s main institution of history research. It concentrates mostly on the history of Lithuania and its neighbouring states.
Institute employees 126 workers, 64 of them have Ph.D. degree, 4 hablitated doctors. Its director is Alvydas Nikžentaitis. Institute is divided into 7 sections (archaeological, cities, ethnology, archaeography, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, 19th century and 20th century). Institute has its own library, collection of manuscripts and publishing house.
Projects
Institute is currently working on 15 projects, [lt icon cite web |url=http://www.istorija.lt/html/index.html |title=Projects list at Lithuanian Institute of History webpage|accessdate=2007-01-13] main of them is 12 volume academic history of Lithuania. [lt icon cite web |url=http://www.istorija.lt/html/ldk1.html |title=Project summary at Lithuanian Institute of History webpage|accessdate=2007-01-13] Two pojects of institute is publishing of twice a year journal "Lietuvos istorijos metraštis" [lt icon cite web |url=http://www.istorija.lt/lim/index.html |title=List of latest issues|accessdate=2007-01-13] and yearly English journal "Lithuanian Historical Studies". [en icon cite web |url=http://www.istorija.lt/lhs/index.html |title=List of latest issues|accessdate=2007-01-13]
References
External links
*en icon [http://www.istorija.lt/en/ Official webpage]
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