Theodōros Anastasios Kaballiōtēs

Theodōros Anastasios Kaballiōtēs (* around 1715 in Voskopoja ; † around 1790) was an Albanian albanologist , Romanist and lexicographer.

Life

Kaballiōtēs (also Kavalliotis ) grew up trilingual with Modern Greek , Aromanian and Albanian . He studied languages, philosophy and mathematics in Ioannina from 1732 to 1734 and became head of the New Academy (Christian University) in Voskopoja in 1746 .

Kaballiōtēs wrote Greek books on philosophy and grammar. He prepared a textbook written in modern Greek ( Protopeiria , with a trilingual dictionary of 1170 words) for use by the Orthodox , which was printed in Venice in 1770 and has been published several times up to the most recent times (by Johann Thunmann , Gustav Meyer , Harald Haarmann and Armin Hetzer ) was published because it is interesting for both Albanology and Romance studies.

The manuscripts of Theodōros Anastasios Kaballiōtēs were rediscovered by the Wallachian translator of the Koran, Ilo Mitkë Qafëzezi .

Works

• Prōtopeiria para tou sophologiōtatu , Venice 1770 (96 pages)
• [The Dictionary of Theodor Kawalliotis], in: Johann Thunmann , Studies on the History of the Eastern European Peoples , Leipzig 1774, pp. 169–239 (dictionary pp. 181–238); also in: Johann Thunmann, About the history and language of the Albanians and the Wlachen , ed. by Harald Haarmann, Hamburg 1976
• Gustav Meyer, The Greek-South Romanian-Albanian dictionary of the Kavalliotis , Vienna 1895 (meeting reports of the philosophical-historical class of the Imperial Academy of Sciences 132)
• The trilingual dictionary of Theodorus Anastasiu Kavalliotis from Moschopolis, printed in Venice in 1770. Albanian-German-Modern Greek-Aromanian , ed. by Armin Hetzer, Hamburg 1981; ud T. The four-language dictionary of “Theodoros Anastasiu Kavalliotis” from Moschopolis, printed in Venice in 1770, “Albanian-German-New Greek-Aromanian”. Updated new edition , Hamburg 1998

literature

• Agnija V. Desnickaja, Theodoros Kavalliotis, Daniil, Johann Thunmann and the beginnings of Balkanology, in: Meanings and ideas in languages ​​and texts. Dedicated to Werner Bahner , ed. by Werner Neumann and Bärbel Techtmeier, Berlin 1987
• Max Demeter Peyfuss , The Printing House of Moschopolis, 1731-1769. Book printing and veneration of saints in the Archdiocese of Achrida , Cologne / Vienna 1989, 1996
• Helmut-Wilhelm Schaller, History of Southeastern Europe Linguistics, in: Handbuch der Südosteuropa-Linguistik , ed. by Uwe Hinrichs, Wiesbaden 1999, pp. 91–116 (here: p. 97)
• Jens Lüdtke , Diachronic Romance Linguistics and Linguistic Historiography, in: Lexicon of Romance Linguistics I, 1, Tübingen 2001, pp. 1–35 (here: p. 23)
• Robert Elsie , Historical Dictionary of Albania , Lanham, Maryland 2004 sv