Born on 28 September 1939 in Vidiškiai, Ukmergė district.
In 1962 he graduated from Vilnius Pedagogical Institute (now the Lithuanian University of Education), where he became a Lithuanian language and literature teacher. In 1962-1964 she worked as a teacher in Šilavotas and Siponys schools in Prienai district. From 1964 she worked as a lecturer at Vilnius Pedagogical Institute, from 1974 as an associate professor. Candidate of philological sciences in 1970. Lecturer in dialectology, historical grammar, Latvian language, comparative linguistics. Published articles in "Baltistika", "Kalbotyra".