“A man who does not know the history of his family, town and country is condemned to stay a child forever”.

Historian, museum archivist and archaeologist Arūnas Baublys was born on October 27, 1960, in Biržai. Currently, he lectures on the history of Lithuanian Protestantism and the general history of the Church at both Klaipėda and Hanover Universities. He is also a member of the Lithuanian archaeologists association; and has had a very colourful scientific career:

In 1983, he earned a Bachelor’s degree from the History Department at Vilnius University.
1983 - 1985, he worked in the Manuscript and Bibliography Department at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences’ Library.
1985 - 1986, he worked at the Department of Library Matters at the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture. He also lectured cultural workers at the Institute of Development.
1986 - 1993, he was a “Sėla” research fellow in the Biržai regional museum, an archaeologist and head of the department. He researched Biržai’s old town and castle complex.
In 1993, he became an assistant at Klaipėda University’s Centre of Evangelical theology and later, a departmental assistant.
In 2000, he defended his thesis for a Doctor of Humanitarian Sciences (History) degree in the joint graduate schools of the Lithuanian Institute of History and Vytautas Magnus University.
In 2001, he became the head of the Department of Theology at Klaipėda University and the director of the Centre of Evangelic Theology.

His main scientific interests: the administration and control of Lithuanian Reformation Churches in the XVIII-XX c. Also, he is interested in the restoration of furniture and numismatics.

In 2006, the publishing house “Versus aureus” published a monograph of A. Baublys, Lietuvos Evangelikų Reformatų bažnyčios sinodas (The Lithuanian Evangelical Reformation Church Synod). In this study, the author analysed the changes of the church administration’s executive politics of the Lithuanian Evangelical Reformation Church synod from 1795 to 1830.