Anton Çetta (1920–1995), folklorist, professor, social activist, and patriot, was born in Gjakova. He finished the National Lyceum (French) of Korça, and then the Classical Lyceum, in Milan (Italy). After the end of the Second World War, he completed higher studies in Romanistics and graduated from the University of Belgrade (1950). In 1960, he started working at the newly opened Faculty of Philosophy in Prishtina, where he taught the course “Old Albanian Literature” for several years. From 1967, as a scientific associate at the Albanological Institute of Prishtina, he devoted himself entirely to the work of collecting, studying, and publishing the folklore of Kosova. A series of books with folkloric subjects prepared by him in different years have been published, where he has helped to clarify problems related to the classification of Albanian folk prose, Albanian ballads, legends about Skanderbeg, historical songs, etc. (In the photo: Anton Çetta)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 1, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 388-389.
Photo: © National History Museum
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