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Gjon Buzuku (c. 1499 – c. 1577) was an Albanian Catholic priest and a prominent Old Albanian author, who wrote the first known printed book in Albanian. Commonly referred to as the Missal , this book is considered an important monument of Albanian studies, being the oldest source for studying the Albanian language.
Meshari ( Albanian for "Missal") is the oldest published book in Albanian. The book was written by Gjon Buzuku, a Catholic cleric in 1555. The book contains 188 pages and is written in two columns. Meshari is the translation of the main parts of the Catholic Liturgy into Albanian. It contains the liturgies of the main religious holidays of the ...
Albanian priest Gjon Buzuku translated selected Scripture portions into Albanian which were printed in the first known Albanian book, The Missal , composed in the Gheg dialect of Albanian. The Apostolic Library in the Vatican holds the only known copy of the book. Dr. Thoma Qendro prepared the Biblical text from Buzuku's Missal for the Albanian ...
The building of the "Gjon Buzuku" high school, pre-Kosovo War. The "Gjon Buzuku" building, post-war. "Gjon Buzuku" is a general high school with a long tradition. We can find the beginning of activities during the 70s year, XIX. In 1907, Kosovo's Serbs, with the help of the Serbian and Russian government, opened a secondary school.
Born in Oberfrohna, Saxony, he studied Slavic studies and other philologies at Humboldt University in Berlin (1951–1955). After completing his studies, he worked as a scientific assistant at the Institute of Folk Culture of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (1955–1963). Fiedler first visited Albania in 1957, where he stayed for four months ...
Excerpt from Meshari by Gjon Buzuku. Meshari (The Missal) by Gjon Buzuku, published by him in 1555, is the first literary work published in Albanian. [5] [6] The refined level of the language and the stabilised orthography must be a result of an earlier tradition of writing Albanian, a tradition that is not known. [6]
Biography. Monsignor Gjon Nikollë Kazazi was born on 1 January 1702 in Gjakova, Ottoman Empire (modern day Kosovo ). [4] He was an ethnic Albanian born into a Roman Catholic family, his family spoke in the Gheg dialect of the Albanian language. He finished elementary school in Gjakova, at 18 he continued theological studies at Illyric College ...
The oldest surviving document with Albanian text is from the 15th century and written in the Latin script. Early Albanian writers such as Gjon Buzuku, Pjetër Bogdani, Pjetër Budi, and Frang Bardhi also used a Latin-based script, adding Greek characters to represent extra sounds. A Catholic alphabet used by Arbëreshë (Italo-Albanians).