Antanas Andrijauskas

Antanas Andrijauskas (born 3 November 1948) is a Lithuanian doctor and college professor. He holds a habilitated doctor title and is a senior researcher at the Department of Comparative Culture Studies at the Culture, Philosophy, and Arts Research Institute at Vilnius University and the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts. He serves as the president of the Lithuanian Aesthetic Association and is a member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Andrijauskas was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, and graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in philosophy in 1978. He defended his habilitated doctoral dissertation in 1990. He furthered his studies at the University of Paris-Sorbonne and the Collège de France, and conducted research at the University of Paris-X Nanterre. He has also lectured as a visiting professor globally. Andrijauskas is recognized for his extensive contributions to the humanities, having authored 28 monographs, 55 compiled books, and over 650 scientific articles in various languages. He has founded and edited seven academic publications and is on the editorial boards of seven Lithuanian and international journals. In 2003, he received the National Prize for Lithuanian Scholarship for his scholarly works on comparative research into culture, philosophy, aesthetics, and art.