Philosopher, professor, and political actor Bronius Genzelis was born on February 16, 1934, in Aukštadvaris (Trakai region).

After graduating from Kaišiadorys secondary school, he sought higher education in Moscow. From 1961 to 1964, during post-graduate work at the Lithuanian Institute of History, he prepared for a scientific degree. In 1974, he became a Doctor of Philosophy. He started his professional career as a lecturer at the Šiauliai Pedagogical Institute and successfully continued his career at Vilnius University where in 1965, he became a docent and in 1974, a professor. Since 1997, he has been a professor at Vytautas Magnum University. In 2005, he became a member of the University’s Senate.

B. Genzelis is an active political actor. He was a member of the Lithuanian Reform Movement Sąjūdis’ initiative group and a member of the Sąjūdis Seimas Council. From 1989 to 1990, he was a member of USSR’s Supreme Council and in the first years of Lithuanian independence – a member of the Lithuanian Republic’s Supreme Council and the Lithuanian Republic’s Commission for a New Constitution. In 1992, he was elected to the Seimas and was a member of the Committee of Education, Science and Culture. Since 1996, he has been a member of the Seimas’ fraction of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (later the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania). Since 1999, he has been a member of the party’s council.

From 1995 to 1997, he was the chairman of the Lithuanian National Commission for UNESCO and was the president of the Lithuanian Association of Societies for Ties with Foreign Countries.

His scientific research areas: Lithuanian cultural history, the development of political systems in Lithuania and political philosophy.

B. Genzelis has written seven individual and composed and edited eleven collective monographs and textbooks. Also, he has published more than one hundred scientific articles in the scientific press of Lithuania, the USA, Germany, Poland, France, the Czech Republic, Russia and Latvia.