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Bronius Kuzmickas

Lithuanian politician (1935-2023)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 9, 2023
Entity authorityQ4973999 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bronius Kuzmickas (10 November 1935 – 6 November 2023) was a Lithuanian politician and philosopher. In 1990 he was among those who signed the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania. Kuzmickas died on 6 November 2023, at the age of 87.

Editorial summary

“Bronius Kuzmickas” enters the record as lithuanian politician (1935-2023). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bronius, Kuzmickas and Lithuanian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1935, 2023, 1990—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935-11-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bronius, Kuzmickas and Lithuanian.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Bronius Kuzmickas” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Bronius, Kuzmickas and Lithuanian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 9, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q4973999. VIAF identifies the subject as 19820416. The Library of Congress control number is n82040807. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1935, 2023 and 1990.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bronius Kuzmickas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.