Question: What Prussian Lithuanian Lutheran pastor and poet wrote "The Seasons" a masterpiece of early Lithuanian literature thatdepicts everyday life of Lithuanian peasants, their struggle with serfdom, and the annual cycle of life?
Context: Daniel Klein (Lithuanian: "Danielius Kleinas" ) (1609–1666) was a Lutheran pastor and scholar from Tilsit, Duchy of Prussia, who is best known for writing the first grammar book of the Lithuanian language. The annual cycle of sea level height (or seasonal cycle or annual harmonic) describes the variation of sea level that occurs with a period of one year.  Historically, analysis of the annual cycle has been limited by locations with tide gauge records, i.e., coastlines and some islands in the deep ocean, and by sparse records in the Southern Hemisphere.  Since 1992, satellite-based altimeters have provided near global coverage of sea level variability, allowing for a more thorough understanding of the annual cycle both in the deep ocean and in coastal margins. The Rev Elizabeth Alvina Platz is an American Lutheran pastor and was the first woman in North America ordained by a Lutheran church body.  She was ordained in November 1970 into the Lutheran Church in America (LCA).  The ordination of women, approved earlier that year by both the LCA and The American Lutheran Church (ALC) was controversial.  The ALC ordained its first woman as a pastor, the Rev. Barbara Andrews, in December of the same year.  The ALC and LCA merged in 1988 with the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Jonas Smalakys (1835–1901) was a Prussian Lithuanian landowner, soldier, and the first Prussian Lithuanian to be elected to the Reichstag. Kristijonas Donelaitis (1 January 1714 – 18 February 1780; Latin: "Christian Donalitius" ) was a Prussian Lithuanian Lutheran pastor and poet.  He lived and worked in Lithuania Minor, a territory in the Kingdom of Prussia, that had a sizable minority of ethnic Lithuanians.  He wrote the first classic Lithuanian language poem, "The Seasons" (Lithuanian: "Metai" ), which became one of the principal works of Lithuanian poetry.  The poem, a classic work of Lithuanian literature, depicts everyday life of Lithuanian peasants, their struggle with serfdom, and the annual cycle of life. The Seasons (Lithuanian: Metai ) is the first Lithuanian poem written by Kristijonas Donelaitis around 1765–1775.  It is in quantitative dactylic hexameters as often used for Latin and Ancient Greek poetry.  It was published as ""Das Jahr"" in Königsberg, 1818 by Ludwig Rhesa, who also named the poem and selected the arrangement of the parts.  The German translation was included in the first edition of the poem.  The book was dedicated to Wilhelm von Humboldt.  The poem is considered a masterpiece of early Lithuanian literature. Jonas Bretkūnas, Johann(es) Bretke, also known as Bretkus (born 1536 in Bammeln near Friedland – 1602 Königsberg) was a Lutheran pastor and was one of the best known developers of the written Lithuanian language.  He translated the Bible into Lithuanian, was the author of twelve Lithuanian books, and a historian as well. Konstantinas Sirvydas (rarely referred as Konstantinas Širvydas; Latin: "Constantinus Szyrwid" ; Polish: "Konstanty Szyrwid" ) 1579 – 8 August 1631) was a Lithuanian religious preacher, lexicographer and one of the pioneers of Lithuanian literature from the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, at the time a confederal part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.  He was a Jesuit priest, a professor at the Academia Vilnensis and the author of, among other works, the first grammar of the Lithuanian language and the first tri-lingual dictionary in Lithuanian, Latin and Polish (1619).  Famous for his eloquence, Sirvydas spent 10 years of his life preaching sermons at St. John's church in Vilnius (twice a day - once in Lithuanian, and once in Polish). Heinrich Christian Schwan (April 5, 1819 – May 29, 1905), a German Lutheran pastor, was the third president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), from 1878 to 1899.  He earlier served as a missionary in Brazil, as a pastor in Cleveland, Ohio, and as president of the synod's Central District.  Schwan is credited with being the first pastor to erect a Christmas tree in an American church sanctuary and was responsible for the Missouri Synod's first exposition of Martin Luther's Small Catechism.  He was the son of the Rev. Georg Heinrich Christian Schwan, an Evangelical Lutheran pastor in northern Germany, and his first wife, Charlotte Wyneken, and was also the half-brother of Major General Theodore Schwan. Lietuvininkai we are born (German: "Als Litauer sind wir geboren" , Lithuanian: "Lietuvninkai mes esam gimę" ) is a Lithuanian-language patriotic and sentimental poem written by the German linguist Georg Sauerwein in 1879.  It is a passionate defense of Prussian Lithuanian (Lietuvininkai) language and culture, rallying people to resist Germanisation attempts.  However, at the same time the poem proclaimed love and loyalty to the Kaiser signifying that the rally was cultural and not political.  It was inspired by Enlightenment ideas that archaic languages and traditions of minorities should be cherished, studied, and preserved.  The poem was first published in the Prussian Lithuanian newspaper "Lietuwißka Ceitunga" in 1879.
Answer: Kristijonas Donelaitis