Keleivis

Edited and published by the linguist and Lutheran pastor Friedrich Kurschat, Keleivis was politically conservative and propagated religious values.

These included the short-lived periodicals Lietuviškas prielaiškas by teacher Mauras Pucas and Lietuvininkų prietelis by priest Rudolf Andreas Zippel.

[1] The Prussian Conservative Party approached Friedrich Kurschat, a native Lithuanian speaker and politically loyal to the German Empire, who published two pro-monarchy proclamations in 1848 and established weekly Keleivis in 1849.

[3] Kurschat transferred the newspaper to teacher Adomas Einaras who published Naujasis keleivis (The New Traveler) in Tilsit (now Sovetsk) in April 1880.

Einaras then briefly revived Keleivis, but in 1884 it became a weekly supplement to Konzervatyvų draugystės laiškas published by the Lithuanian Conservative Election Societies until 1918.