Andrea Bogdani

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Andrea Bogdani (Albanian: Andrea Bogdani; ca. 1600–1683) was an Ottoman scholar of Albanian origin and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

Andrea Bogdani was born at the beginning of the 17th century, in Gur i Hasit, near Prizren, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Kosovo). Bogdani was educated by Jesuits at the Illyrian College in Loreto.[1]

After completing his education in Loreto, he became a parish in Pristina.[2] From 1656 to 1677, when he resigned he served as Archbishop of Skopje, while from 1675 to 1677 he also served as apostolic administrator of Achrida.[3] On 8 November 1677 Bogdano resigned because of illness.[4] His nephew Petro Bogdano, one of the best-known writers of early Albanian literature succeeded him as Archbishop of Skopje in 1677. Andrea Bogdano has become known for writing the first Latin-Albanian grammar book,[5] now lost.

Serbian historian Samardžić criticized Bogdani's works as forgery and revisionism of the Serbian medieval history.[6] Bogdani distinguished himself as great enemy of Serbs.[7] He considered Orthodox Serbs as enemies of Catholics and wrote that the Orthodox Serbs in Kosovo, while also being protected by the Ottomans, were trying to extract money from the Catholics.[8][9]

References

  1. 1.umetnosti, Srpska akademija nauka i (1950). Posebna izdanja. p. 244.
  2. 2.Umetnosti, Srpska akademija nauka i (1946). Glas. p. 73.
  3. 3.Elsie, Robert; Centre for Albanian Studies (2005). Albanian literature: a short history. I.B.Tauris. pp. 27–8. ISBN 1-84511-031-5.
  4. 4.Glasnik na Institutot za nacionalna istorija. Institut. 1972. p. 255. По оставката на болниот надбискуп на скопската надбис- купија Андрија Богдани на 8 ноември 1677 година, надбискуп
  5. 5.Marmullaku, Ramadan (1975). Albania and the Albanians. C. Hurst. p. 17. ISBN 0-903983-13-3.
  6. 6.Samardžić 1993, p. 100.
  7. 7.umetnosti, Srpska akademija nauka i (1950). Posebna izdanja. p. 347. Иначе надбискуп Богдани, као и раније, истиче се као велики противник Срба
  8. 8.Kosovo: A Short History p. 207
  9. 9.Историски записи. с.н. 1954. p. 328. Андрија Богдани из Јањева каже да су православни исто толики противници католика колико и Турци...