 He attended a primary school in Rietavas, progymnasium in Telšiai in 1860–1864, and (former Kražiai College) in 1866–1869.He did not complete the gymnasium education and withdrew in 1869 but continued to study the languages translating various texts from Latin, German, Polish.In November 1871, he enrolled into the Kaunas Priest Seminary where he became a student of Antanas Baranauskas who taught homiletics in Lithuanian and studied the different dialects of the Lithuanian language.