Pjetër Mazreku (1584– 27 November 1634) (Italian: Pietro Massarecchi, Latin: Petrus Massarecchius) was an Albanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He wrote documents on the state of Christians in the Ottoman Empire, and a short 33 word Albanian etymological dictionary, preserved as a manuscript.
Life
Mazreku was born in Prizren, into an Albanian family from the Mazreku tribe, which spoke in the Gheg dialect of Albanian. He served as the Archbishop of Bar from 1624 to 1634, while in 1631 he became the apostolic visitor of Hungary, Serbia and Slavonia. In 1634 he was ordained as the apostolic administrator of Serbia. Until his death around 1638 he served as Bishop of Prizren.
Mazreku knew many languages, and wrote an etymological dictionary of the Albanian language.
Annotations
His name was spelt in Latin and Italian as Mazzaretus, Massarechio, Maserecho, Masarecho, Masserecco, Massarecius, etc. In Albanian, his name is spelt Pjetër Mazreku.
References
- Starine, 1892, Zagreb XXV, p. 166
- Ehrenpreis, Stefan; Schilling, Heinz (2007). Wege der Neuzeit: Festschrift für Heinz Schilling zum 65. Geburtstag. Duncker & Humblot. p. 224. ISBN 978-3-428-12394-0. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- Bahlcke, Joachim; Strohmeyer, Arno (1999). Konfessionalisierung in Ostmitteleuropa: Wirkungen des religiösen Wandels im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert in Staat, Gesellschaft und Kultur. Franz Steiner Verlag. p. 215. ISBN 978-3-515-07583-1.
- Eqrem Çabej (1977). Studime gjuhësore: Gjon Buzuku dhe gjuha e tij. Rilindja. p. 22.
- Archivum franciscanum historicum periodica publicatio trimestris. Collegio s. Bonaventura. 1925.
Sources
- Ehrenpreis, Stefan; Schilling, Heinz (2007). Wege der Neuzeit: Festschrift für Heinz Schilling zum 65. Geburtstag. Duncker & Humblot. ISBN 978-3-428-12394-0. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- 17th-century Albanian Roman Catholic bishops
- 17th-century Italian writers
- 17th-century Italian male writers
- 17th-century Albanian writers
- Albanian Roman Catholic archbishops
- Archbishops of Antivari
- People from Prizren
- Italian-language writers
- 1584 births
- 1634 deaths
- Members of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
- 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Ottoman Empire