This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Pranas Čepėnas" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2021) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)

Pranas Čepėnas (4 April 1899 in Veleikiai, Kovno Governorate – 3 December 1980 in Worcester, Massachusetts) was a Lithuanian historian, encyclopedist, journalist, and lexicographer. In 1926 Čepėnas earned a diploma in history from University of Lithuania. He worked as professor of history at Vilnius University. During World War II he emigrated to Germany and later to the U.S.

Major works

• Editor of interwar Lietuviškoji enciklopedija (Lithuanian Encyclopedia) and Dictionary of International Words.
• Naujųjų laikų Lietuvos istorija vol I and II (1988), English: History of Lithuania in Modern Times
• Editor of Lietuviškoji enciklopedija printed in Boston.

External links

• Article about his book in Lituanus magazine (in Lithuanian)

This biographical article about a Lithuanian historian is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e