Jan Evstrat Vithkuqari (ca. 1755-1822) was an

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scholar, educator, and translator.

Life

He was born in Vithkuq, Ottoman Empire (modern Albania) possibly in 1755. He studied in the

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of Moscopole, where he worked as a teacher. He also worked as a teacher in

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, Përmet and

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. Apart from

, which he spoke in the Tosk dialect, he knew English and Greek. He wrote a grammar book of the Albanian language and was the co-author of a 2000-word English-Greek-Albanian dictionary included in

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's ''Researches in Greece'' published in 1814.

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