Ndre Mjeda

Ndre Mjeda on an Albanian postage stamp from 1966

Ndre Mjeda (born November 20, 1866 in Shkodra , Albania ; † August 1, 1937 ibid) was an Albanian cleric and poet from the Mjeda family . He was influenced by the writer Anton Xanoni and the poet Leonardo De Martino .

From 1880 to 1887 Mjeda studied literature in the Carthusian monastery Porta Coeli in Valencia , rhetoric , Latin and Italian in Croatia at a Jesuit college , at the Gregorian University in Rome and at another college in Chieri . While studying, Mjeda began to write Albanian poetry. Some of his most famous poems are Vaji i Bylbylit (The Nightingale's Lament) (1887) and Vorri i Skanderbegut (Skanderbeg's grave).

From 1887 to 1891 Mjeda also studied music at the college of Marco Girolamo Vida in Cremona and translated religious literature. He published Jeta e sceitit SC 'Gnon Berchmans (The Life of Jan Berchmans) (1888), and T' perghjamit e Zojs Bekume (Imitation of the Blessed Virgin) (1892), a translation from the Spanish, Katekizmi i Madh (The Great Catechism ), another translation, and e Historia Shejtë (Sacred History).

Mjeda later studied theology at the Jesuit College in Cracow , Poland , and taught philosophy, philology , logic and metaphysics at the college in Kraljevica , where he was also a librarian. In 1898 he was expelled after a conflict between Austria-Hungary and the Vatican .

Mjeda was a member of the Literary Commission in Shkodra and a deputy in the National Assembly of Albania. He left politics after Fan Noli's defeat and the rise of King Zog . He then served as pastor in Kukël and taught Albanian language and literature at the Jesuit college in Shkodra until his death.

literature

• Hasan Kaleshi: Mjeda, Don Ndre , in: Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Vol. 3. Munich 1979, pp. 225-229

Web links

• Biography at albanianliterature.com