Karl Gurakuqi (24 March 1895 – 6 December 1971) was an

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linguist and folklorist.

Life

Born in

Shkodër Shkodër ( , ; sq-definite, Shkodra) is the fifth-most-populous city of the Republic of Albania and the seat of Shkodër County and Shkodër Municipality. The city sprawls across the Plain of Mbishkodra between the southern part of Lake Shkod ...

in 1895 he first studied in the Jesuit Saverian College of Shkodër and later Salzburg. In the mid 1910s he graduated from the faculty of humanities of the University of Graz. In 1921 in Vlorë, he was elected general secretary of the Fatherland Federation, a democratic organization led by Avni Rustemi. Later he worked as a professor of

and Latin in the

Queen Mother Pedagogical Institute The Queen Mother Pedagogical Institute ( sq, Instituti Femnuer "Nana Mbretneshë"), was a women's pedagogy, pedagogical high school, created in 1933 in Tirana, Albania. The Institute, approved by Government Decree nr. 666 on October 2, 1933, ope ...

in Tiranë. From 1940 to 1944 he was a member of the Institute of Albanian Studies, the predecessor of the Academy of Sciences of Albania. As a member of the institute in 1941 he became one of the editor of a two-volume anthology of Albanian literature. After World War II he co-wrote the ''Albanian-German Dictionary'' of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. From the 1950s to his death in 1971 he worked as a professor of Albanian studies in the University of Palermo, Italy. He died in Palermo in 1971.

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