Alfonsas Eidintas


Alfonsas Eidintas is a historian, diplomat and novelist. He is Lithuania's Ambassador to Greece.

Scholar

Between 1969 and 1973, Alfonsas Eidintas studied history at Vilnius Pedagogical University. He went to serve as chief lecturer, docent, head of the Universal History Department, and Deputy Dean at that institution. From 1986 to 1993, he was the Deputy Director for Research at the Lithuanian Institute of History of the Lithuanuan Academy of Sciences. He received his habilitation in 1990.

Diplomat

Eidintas entered the diplomatic service in 1993, serving as Lithuania's Ambassador to the United States. He also served as Lithuania's Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Canada, Mexico, Norway, Israel, Cyprus, Ethiopia, South Africa and Nigeria. He also worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, most recently as ambassador-at-large at the Foreign Ministry's Information and Public Relations Department. He was a lecturer at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science.

Author

As of 2009, he had authored 17 books and at least 50 scientific articles about Lithuanian history and politics and published a work of historic fiction, Ieškok Maskvos sfinkso.

Books