Born on 03.04.1934 in Medingėnai, Plungė district.
Graduated from secondary school in Varniai, Telšiai district. 1954-1959 studied German language and literature at Vilnius University. Immediately after his studies, he was appointed a lecturer of German at the Department of German Language of Vilnius University. In 1962-1965 he studied at the post-graduate course at the T. Shevchenko University in Kiev, specialising in phonetics and phonology. In 1971 he defended his PhD thesis in philology at the University of Leningrad (now St Petersburg). He was appointed head of the Department of German Language at Vilnius University and worked there until 1981. From 1981 to 1984, he remained at the university only as a lecturer, at which time he also began to work in translation. From 1985 to 1997 he was Vice-Dean for Research at the Faculty of Philology of Vilnius University. From 1997 to 2000 he taught German, and in 2000 he retired from teaching to devote himself to translation. In 1992 he did a fellowship at the University of Salzburg, and in 1995 at the University of Münster. In 1999 he attended the International Conference of Goethe Translators in Erfurt.