 The manuscript was discovered in 1909 and first published in 1931.He also translated and published excerpts from works by Hugues Felicité Robert de Lamennais and Adam Mickiewicz that were very popular among Polish émigrés in France.Nezabitauskis was born in near Salantai, Samogitia, then part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, to a family of free peasants.