Jan Evstrat Vithkuqari (ca. 1755-1822) was an Albanian scholar, educator, and translator.
Life
editHe was born in Vithkuq, Ottoman Empire (modern Albania) possibly in 1755. He studied in the New Academy of Moscopole, where he worked as a teacher.[1] He also worked as a teacher in Arta, Përmet and Ioannina. Apart from Albanian, which he spoke in the Tosk dialect, 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- ^ 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.