Name Jan Vithkuqari | Died 1822 | |
Jan Evstrat Vithkuqari (ca.1755-1822) was an Albanian scholar, educator, and translator.
Life
He was born in Vithkuq, southern Albania possibly in 1755. He studied in the New Academy of Moscopole, where he worked as a teacher. 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.
References
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