Gjon Gazulli ( la, Johannes Gasulus)

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, 1400 –

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, 19 February 1465) was an

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, humanist scholar, and diplomat.Proleksis enciklopedija LZMK
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Life

Gazulli attended schools in

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and

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, and in 1430 he graduated from the

University of Padua The University of Padua ( it, Università degli Studi di Padova, UNIPD) is an Italian university located in the city of Padua, region of Veneto, northern Italy. The University of Padua was founded in 1222 by a group of students and teachers from B ...

. In 1432 he traveled to the Hungarian royal court where he attempted to persuade Sigismund I to support Albanian resistance against the

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. He broke his mission off in 1433, when he was appealed to be a professor of

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

and

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at the University of Padua. Years later he was acting as a diplomat with the Italian principalities' courts, representing the interests of

Skanderbeg , reign = 28 November 1443 – 17 January 1468 , predecessor = Gjon Kastrioti , successor = Gjon Kastrioti II , spouse = Donika Arianiti , issue = Gjon Kastrioti II , royal house = Kastrioti , father ...

and of the

League of Lezhë The League of Lezhë ( sq, Lidhja e Lezhës), also commonly referred to as the Albanian League ( sq, Lidhja Arbërore), was a military and diplomatic alliance of the Albanian aristocracy, created in the city of Lezhë on 2 March 1444. The Leag ...

. His lasting mathematical and astronomical works were written in Latin. He was renowned for his considerable knowledge, in Italy and in Hungary, as well. His brother,

Pal Gazulli Pal Gazulli or Paulus Gassulus (1405–1470) was an Albanian Catholic priest, scholar and diplomat under Skanderbeg service. After the death of Georgius Pelino in 1463, he became the personal ambassador of Skanderbeg in Republic of Venice. On 13 ...

(1405–1470), was the diplomat of Skanderbeg and of the League of Lezhë in Ragusa. He had a second brother named Andrea Gazulli, also mentioned as prominent.

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"Gjin Gazulli" Technical High School in Prishtina
(in Albanian)
Hrvatska enciklopedija LZMK
Gazulli, Gjin (Gazulić Ivan, Joannes) (in Croatian) {{DEFAULTSORT:Gazulli Gjon 1400 births 1465 deaths People from Lezhë Albanian mathematicians Albanian male writers Albanian diplomats 15th-century Albanian Roman Catholic priests 15th-century Albanian writers Venetian Albanians 15th-century Latin writers Albanian astronomers Albanian humanists