Gjon Gazulli

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Gjon Gazulli or Gjin Gazulli (Latin: Johannes Gasulus; Serbian: Ivan Gazulić; Gjadër, 1400 - Republic of Ragusa, February 19, 1465) Albanian Dominican friar, Humanist scholar, diplomat.

He attended schools in Shkodra and Ragusa, and graduated at the University of Padua in 1425. In 1432 he travelled to the Hungarian royal court where he attempted to persuade Sigismund I in supporting Albanian resistance against the Ottoman Empire. He broke his mission off in 1433 when he was appealed to be a professor for the mathematics and astronomy at the University of Padua. In addition he was acting as a diplomat representing interests of the Republic of Ragusa and Albania.

His lasting mathematical and astronomical works were written in Latin. He was renowned for his considerable knowledge, in Italy and in Hungary, as well. His brother, Pal Gazulli (1405-1470) was the deputy of Skanderbeg in Ragusa.

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Edwin E. Jacques, The Albanians: An ethnic history from prehistoric times to the present, Jefferson, McFarland, 1995, 188–189.
Oliver Jens Schmitt, Das venezianische Albanien (1392–1479), München, Oldenbourg, 2001, 589.