Born on 22.11.1928 in Klibaliai (Kelmė district). Died 17.05.2004 in Klaipėda.
A teenager growing up in Žemaitija, in 1941 a war explosive blew off the palm of his right hand, depriving him of his sight. From 1947 he attended boarding school for the blind in Kaunas. Later, working as a telephone operator, he graduated from an evening secondary school, and in 1976, part-time, from the Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute. He worked as the director of the Klaipėda Production Training Combine of the Society of the Blind, as a teacher at the adult school for the blind, as the chief librarian of the LASS library, and as the head of the "Eldija" publishing house. Since 1979 he has been an Honorary Member of the Lithuanian Association of the Blind and Visually Impaired.