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 Academy of Moscopole, 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
- ^ 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.