Jonas Jaknavičius

Jonas Jaknavičius was a Lithuanian Jesuit chancellery worker, teacher, Rector of the Kražiai College, Smolensk College, and Vilnius College.
Jaknavičius prepared and published a book about the Polish and Lithuanian gospels for sermons which was republished 40 times in the 17th-19th centuries due to their popularity. The Ewangelie polskie y litewskie was written and published in Polish and Lithuanian languages. The oldest surviving version of the Ewangelie polskie y litewskie is from 1647 and was recognized by UNESCO.
Jaknavičius also contributed to the 2nd edition of Konstantinas Sirvydas' dictionary Dictionarium Trium Lingvarum in usum Studiosæ Iuventutis.