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Jonas Burba

Lithuanian artist (1907-1952)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ12657700 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jonas Juozas Burba (February 1, 1907 – April 26, 1952) was an artist born in Skuodas, Lithuania. His notable works include Lithuanian postage stamps, the interwar design of the Order of Vytautas the Great and the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas. During the Soviet occupation of Lithuania, Burba was deported to Siberia in 1941 as part of a mass targeting of artists by the Soviets.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jonas Burba” is lithuanian artist (1907-1952). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jonas, Burba and Lithuanian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1907, 1952, 1941—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1907-02-01. For this dossier, Jonas, Burba and Lithuanian is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “lithuanian artist (1907-1952)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q12657700. VIAF identifies the subject as 316496368. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1907, 1952 and 1941.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  2. Expand the search: follow Jonas Burba primary sources, Jonas Burba archive and Jonas research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jonas Burba” 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.