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Jan Evstrat Vithkuqari (ca. 1755-1822) was an Albanian scholar, educator, and translator.

Life[edit]

He was born in Vithkuq, Ottoman Empire possibly in 1755. He studied in the New AcademyofMoscopole, where he worked as a teacher.[1] He also worked as a teacher in Arta, Përmet and Ioannina. Apart from Albanian he knew English and Greek.

He wrote a grammar book of the Albanian language and was the co-author of a 2000-word English-Greek-Albanian dictionary included in William Martin Leake's Researches in Greece published in 1814.[2]

Sources[edit]

  1. ^ Lloshi, Xhevat (2008). Rreth Alfabetit Të Shqipes (in Albanian). Logos-A. p. 279. ISBN 978-9989-58-268-4.
  • ^ Meid, Wolfgang (1982). Sprachwissenschaft in Innsbruck (in German). Institut der Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck. p. 138.

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