Born on 02 May 1899 in Gimbutis, Joniškis district.
Died on 09.11.1992 in Kaunas, buried in Žagarė.
He attended the Žagarė progymnasium. In 1919 he joined the Knight Regiment of the Lithuanian Army in Kaunas. He qualified as a clerk, worked in the officers' library and represented the soldiers in the press. In 1921, he graduated from the military school of the First President of Lithuania with the rank of lieutenant, and was assigned to the 3rd Cavalry Regiment. In 1927, after graduating from the Higher Officers' Course, he was appointed senior lieutenant of the regiment. In 1926 he took part in the overthrow of President Kazis Grinis. In 1929 captain of the 1st Hussars Regiment. In 1931 he was confirmed as a member of the Court of Honour of the lower officers of the regiment. He was dismissed from the regiment's commandant's post for his participation in the "Voldemarininkai Putsch" and was obliged to leave Kaunas, but disobeyed and remained in the city. He worked in the editorial office of "Lietuvos evadas" (Lithuanian Echo) without being sanctioned. In 1934, he retired from the army. From 1935 he studied economics at Vytautas Magnus University. When the Soviet Union was attacked by Nazi Germany and the Lithuanian Nationalist Party staged a putsch against the Lithuanian Provisional Government, he was involved in the editorial office of the daily newspaper "Į laisvę" ("To Freedom") (from 1943 - "Ateitis"), and he informed the party what was happening in the party. On 1 January 1945, he was employed as the head of the archives department of the War Museum for the Protection of Monuments. In May he was dismissed, arrested and deported to Vorkuta camp. In 1958 he returned to Kaunas. He worked unofficially, sometimes writing scientific articles. He wrote poems, collaborated in the editorial office of the Lithuanian Soviet Encyclopaedia of Minor Lithuania, and wrote memoirs about the literary movement of the "Keturvejininkai". He signed his poems written in Žagarė under the pseudonym Žengė and sent them to the weekly "Lietuva". Faustas Kirša published them and asked for new poems for the almanac "Šaka". He took part in the "Four Winds" union. The poet's chosen nickname "Žengė" is related to the military command "Žengte marš!". It aptly reflects the young writer's approach to creation - to push forward into the uncharted areas of modern poetic expression. He wrote correspondence and literary texts: poetry, columns, reviews, etc. His works were published in "Karys", "Mūsų žinynas", "Kardas", "Sekmoji diena", "Krivulė", "Naujas žodis". He took part in literary and social life: he helped to organise Lithuanian evenings and the library, and played in a bagpipe orchestra.