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(Redirected from Stavro Skendi) Albanian American linguist and historian

Stavro Skëndi (1905 in Korçë – August 17, 1989 in Long Island) was an Albanian-American linguist and historian.

Career

Skendi was an academic at Columbia University between 1951 and 1972. While at Columbia, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship during 1963. Outside of Columbia, Skendi went to the Institute for Advanced Study as a Visiting Fellow.

Selected works

  • Gjendja e Shqiperise sot dhe detyra e Shqiptarvet. (The situation of Albania today and the duty of the Albanians.) Konference e dhene ne Detroit, me 19 prill, 1953. Detroit 1953.
  • Albanian political thought and revolutionary activity, 1881–1912. München 1954.
  • Albanian and South Slavic oral epic poetry. American Folklore Society, Philadelphia 1954.
  • The Political Evolution of Albania, 1912-1944. Mid-European Studies Center, New York 1954.
  • Albania. (With Mehmet Beqiraj, George Bossy, Robert F. Byrnes.) Atlantic Pr., London 1957.
  • Mendimi politik dhe veprimtarija kryengritese shqiptare, 1881–1912. (Political opinion and the activities of the Albanian uprising, 1881–1912) New York 1958.
  • The history of the Albanian alphabet: a case of complex cultural and political development. R. Oldenbourg, München 1960.
  • The emergence of the modern Balkan literary languages: a comparative approach. Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1964.
  • Crypto-Christianity in the Balkan area under the Ottomans. American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, 1967.
  • The Albanian national awakening, 1878-1912. Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J. 1967.
  • Kačić's "Razgovor" and Fishta's "Lahuta e Malcís". Wiesbaden 1968.
  • Language as a factor of national identity in the Balkans of the nineteenth century. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia 1975.
  • Balkan cultural studies. East European Monographs, Boulder, ; distributed by Columbia University Press, New York 1980.
  • Zgjimi kombëtar shqiptar: 1878-1912. (The awakening of the Albanian nation: 1878–1912.) Tirana/Phoenix 2000.

References

  1. Peter Prifti; Rafaela Kondi (2000). "The Teaching of Albanian at Columbia University". East European Quarterly. 34 (3): 384. Archived from the original on 2011-06-28.
  2. "Starvo Skendi". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved October 26, 2024.
  3. "NYT Obituary: Stavro Skendi, 82, a Professor at Columbia". The New York Times. 1989-08-20. Retrieved 2008-05-14.
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