Pjetër Mazreku (1584–16??) ( it, Pietro Massarecchi, lat, Petrus Massarecchius) was an

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of the

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. He wrote documents on the state of Christians in the Ottoman Empire, and authored an Albanian etymological dictionary.

Life

Mazreku was born in

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. He served as the Archbishop of Bar from 1624 to 1634, while in 1631 he became the apostolic visitor of Hungary, Serbia and

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. In 1634 he was ordained as the

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. From 1642 until his death he served as Bishop of Prizren. Mazreku knew many languages, and wrote an etymological dictionary of the Albanian language.

Annotations

His name was spelt in Latin and Italian as Mazzaretus, Massarechio, Maserecho, Masarecho, Masserecco, Massarecius, etc. In Albanian, his name is spelt Pjetër Mazreku.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Mazreku, Pjeter 17th-century Albanian Roman Catholic bishops 17th-century Italian writers 17th-century Italian male writers 17th-century Albanian writers Albanian Roman Catholic archbishops Archbishops of Antivari People from Prizren Italian-language writers 1584 births 1634 deaths Members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Ottoman Empire