Thimi Mitko
Thimi Mitko or Euthymios Mitkos ( Greek Ευθύμιος Μήτκος , * 1820 in Korça , Ottoman Empire , † March 22, 1890 in Bani Suwaif , Egypt ) was an Albanian collector of folk songs .
When his uncle Peti Mitko, leader of the resistance against the Ottoman Tanzimat legislation, had to leave Albania, Thimi Mitko joined him. They went via Athens and Plovdiv to Vienna , where Thimi Mitko worked as a tailor and began collecting Albanian folklore . In 1866, Thimi Mitko left Vienna and moved to Egypt, first to Han Alil and later to Bani Suwaif , where he opened a commercial shop.
In 1878 he published a collection of southern Albanian folk songs, proverbs and stories under the title Alvaniki Melissa (The Albanian Bee). It was reissued in 1924 by Georg Pekmezi and was particularly appreciated by foreign scholars. During his time in Bani Suwaif, Mitko was in constant correspondence with Jan Urban Jarník , who translated his Albanian folk songs and published them in Veckenstedts Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , and Gustav Meyer , for whom he made most of the texts collected after 1878 available for publication but found no publisher.
Thimi Mitko died after Dhimitër S. Shuteriqi on March 22, 1890 in Bani Suwaif.
Works
- Alvaniki Melissa . Alexandria 1878
- Albanian songs . Translated by Jan Urban Jarník . Journal of Folklore, 1889–1891
- Bleta Shqypëtare e Thimi Mitkos . Re-edited by Georg Pekmezi . Vienna 1924
literature
- Peter Bartl: Mitko, Thimi . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume III, L-P. Munich 1979, p. 224 f . ( ios-regensburg.de ).
- Dhimitër S. Shuteriqi: Histori e letërsisë shqipe . Tiranë 1958, p. 120-124 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mitko, Thimi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mitkos, Euthymios; Μήτκος, Ευθύμιος (elS) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Albanian folk song collector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1820 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Korça , Ottoman Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 22, 1890 |
| Place of death | Bani Suwaif , Egypt |