Eqrem Çabej

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Eqrem Çabej (pronunciation: ˌɛcrɛm ˈt͡ʃabɛj , born August 6, 1908 in Eskişehir , Ottoman Empire , died August 13, 1980 in Rome , Italy ) was an Albanian Albanologist . In this field he was considered a key expert in the linguistics , literature and folklore of Albania.

Eqrem Çabej finished primary school in 1921 in Gjirokastra , where his family came from. At the age of twelve he moved from Albania to Austria . He attended a school in St. Pölten and from 1923 to 1926 a high school in Klagenfurt , where he graduated from high school. From 1927 he studied at the University of Graz and from 1930 on in Vienna , where he attended lectures by Paul Kretschmer , Carl Patsch , Nikolai Trubetzkoy and Norbert Jokl . He wrote his dissertation on Italian-Albanian Studies at the University of Vienna .

Afterwards Eqrem Çabej became a secondary school teacher in Shkodra , Elbasan , Gjirokastra and the Albanian capital Tirana . During the Italian occupation of the Kingdom of Albania , he was imprisoned in Rome. In 1943 the Albanian Prime Minister Rexhep Mitrovica offered him the post of Minister of Education, which Çabej refused. In 1944 he returned to Albania, worked as a teacher and in 1947 became a researcher in the now Socialist People's Republic of Albania at the Institute of Sciences of Tirana, the predecessor of the University of Tirana . From 1952 to 1967 he was professor of historical phonology , in 1972 he was a founding member of the Academy of Sciences . Until the end of his life he carried out research at the Institute for Languages ​​and Literature of Tirana.

The Eqrem-Çabej University in Gjirokastra and some schools in Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia are named after him.

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  • Robert Elsie : Historical dictionary of Albania . 2nd Edition. Scarecrow Press, Lanham 2010, ISBN 978-0-8108-7380-3 , pp. 67 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  • Wąsik, Zbigniew (1985). Profesor Dr Eqrem Çabej (1908-1980), wybitny filolog, twórca współczesnego językoznawstwa albańskiego , Acta Universitatis Wratislaviensis 1985 / IX, pages 99-114.
personal data
SURNAME Çabej, Eqrem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Albanian historiolinguist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Eskişehir , Vilâyet Hüdavendigâr , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1980
Place of death Rome