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The Vilnius University Botanical Garden (VUBG) was founded by French professor Jean Emmanuel Gilibert (Joannes Emmanuel Gilibert, 1741-1814). Until he arrived to Vilnius, he was working in Grodno (now Belarus), where started in 1776 and founded the botanical garden too. He was invited to Vilnius in 1781 and came there in the late autumn of that year. Location of the first BG in Vilnius was in the...