Jan Evstrat Vithkuqari

Jan Evstrat Vithkuqari (ca.1755-1822) was an Albanian scholar, educator, and translator.

Life

He was born in Vithkuq, southern 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 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]

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