Mehdi Bardhi
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Mehdi Bardhi was born on September 14, 1927 in Prizren, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, died on April 3, 1994 in Priština, Yugoslavia.
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[edit] Life
Primary and secondary education were completed in Prizren and Priština. After working as a teacher during the immediate post-war period, he continued his studies within the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. His post-graduate studies were completed in the 50s in the same university in Belgrade, where he presented his degree on the subject of the specifics of the spoken language of Has.[1]
After completing his post-graduate studies in Belgrade, Prof. Mehdi Bardhi returns to work in Priština, first in the Superior Pedagogical School and then in the Institute of Albanology in Priština. He also worked as an Educational Counselor of the Institute of Education Advancement, Associate Professor of the Faculty of Philosophy in Priština, Vice-President of the Pedagogical School in Prizren, Chief of Department of the Albanian language and literature of the Superior Pedagogical School of Priština and the Faculty of Philosophy, and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Priština.
At the University of Priština, he has lectured on Albanian language subjects such as: Phonetics, Morphology, Syntax, Introduction to the Linguistics, History of the language, Lexicology and Old Textbooks.[2]
During the academic year 1989/90, he was a visiting professor of the Albanian language in the Foreign Languages University in Beijing, China, where he published the book of Albanian grammar for Chinese students.
He was one of the original three founders of the Institute of Albanology in Priština, and the forceful closure of the Institute by the Yugoslavian authorities during the Slobodan Milosević era was particularly devastating to him.
He was a board member of several magazines, such as: “Advancement”, “Bulletin of Superior Pedagogical School of Priština”, “Bulletin of Faculty of Philosophy”, “Albanology Research”, “Language Studies I – Dialectology”, “Studia Humanistica”, “International Seminar of the Albanian language, literature and culture”. He was honored with the State Golden Medal for his lifetime work efforts.
Professor Bardhi authored and co-authored seventeen books and dictionaries, six academic brochures, over thirty published articles in scientific journals, seventeen translated books, collector of folkloric songs which were published by the Institute of Albanology, among others.
[edit] Works (In Progress)
- Serbocroatian-Albanian Dictionary, Institute of Albanology, Priština, 1974
- Albanian-Serbocroatian Dictionary, Institute of Albanology, Priština, 1981
- Learn Albanian, Enti i Teksteve dhe i Mjeteve Mësimore i Krahinës Socialiste Autonome të Kosovës, 1986
- Foreign Words Dictionary
- Modernes albanisch im Selbststudium, 1977
