1. Ndre Mjeda was an Albanian philologist, poet, priest, rilindas, translator and writer of the Albanian Renaissance.
15 Facts About Ndre Mjeda
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Ndre Mjeda was influenced by the Jesuit writer Anton Xanoni and the Franciscan poet Leonardo De Martino.
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From 1880 until 1887, Mjeda studied literature at the Carthusian monastery of Porta Coeli, in Valencia, Spain, rhetoric, Latin and Italian in Croatia at a Jesuit institution, at the Gregorian University in Rome, and at another Gregorian college in Chieri, Italy.
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Ndre Mjeda taught music in Cremona, Italy, at the College of Marco Girolamo Vida from 1887 to 1891, and translated various religious literature.
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Ndre Mjeda published Jeta e sceitit sc' Gnon Berchmans, and T' perghjamit e Zojs Bekume, a translation from Spanish, Katekizmi i Madh, another translation, and Historia e Shejte.
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Ndre Mjeda was expelled in 1898 after a conflict between Austria-Hungary and the Vatican.
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In 1901, Ndre Mjeda founded the Agimi Society in Shkoder.
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Ndre Mjeda devised the Agimi alphabet based on Latin characters following the principle of one letter for a sound and used diacritic marks for other peculiar sounds in the Albanian language.
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In Hamburg 1902, Ndre Mjeda's alphabet was approved by the International Congress of the Orientalists and in May by most of the Catholic clergy in Shkoder.
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In 1908, Ndre Mjeda was a delegate at the Albanian alphabet Congress of Monastir representing the Agimi Society.
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Ndre Mjeda supported the Latin character Istanbul alphabet as it contained the principle of one letter, one sound and its Latin characters were similar to the rival Bashkimi alphabet.
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Toward the late Ottoman period, Ndre Mjeda supported Austro-Hungarian intervention in Albanian affairs within the Ottoman Empire.
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Ndre Mjeda served as a member of the Albanian Literary Commission, in Shkoder, under the Austro-Hungarian administration, as well as a deputy in the National Assembly of Albania.
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Ndre Mjeda left politics after Fan Noli's defeat, and the rise of King Zog.
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Ndre Mjeda then served as a parish priest in Kukel, and taught the Albanian language and literature at the Jesuit college in Shkoder until his death.