Shtjefen Gjecovi
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Job / Known for: Priest and folklorist
Left traces: His collection of Albanian folklore
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Date: 1874-07-12
Location: AL Janjevo, Prizren Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Died
Date: 1929-10-14 (aged 55)
Resting place: AL Karashëngjergj, Zym, Kosovo
Death Cause: Shot by Serbian nationalists
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Parent(s): Kolë and Tereza Gjeçovi
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Shtjefën Gjeçovi was an Albanian Catholic priest, ethnologist, and folklorist from Kosovo. He is regarded as the father of Albanian folklore studies. He was born on 12 July 1874 in Janjevo, Prizren Vilayet, Ottoman Empire. He was educated by the Franciscans in Bosnia and moved to Ottoman Albania in 1896, having become a priest, and spent the years between 1905 and 1920 among the Albanian highland tribes, collecting oral literature, tribal law, archaeology and folklore. He was also an important collector of the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors. He was a patriot and a diligent researcher on everything related to the Albanian past. He was shot on 14 October 1929, in the village of Zjum near Djakovica by a Serbian nationalist. There are monuments in his honour at Zym, as well as in Janjevo, along with the house he was born and raised becoming his museum. His grave is in the Karashëngjergj village not far from Zym, and is a place of pilgrimage. [1](^1^) [2](^2^) [3](^3^) [4](^4^) [5](^5^)
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