Mati Logoreci, Albanian school activist, researcher, publicist, Teacher of the People, passed away. He was born in Shkodër. He served 45 years as a teacher in various schools in Shkodra, Skopje and Tirana. He served as the general inspector of education in Albania (1916 – 1918), the director of the girls’ school in Tirana, the vice president of the commission for textbooks and school literature, etc. He participated in the Congress of Lushnja (1920). As an Albanian education activist, he formed the “Gjuha shqipe” club in Shkodër (1908), participated in the educational congresses of Manastir (1908) and Tirana (1922, 1924). He directed the newspapers “Dashamiri” (“The Benevolent”) and “Dashamiri i Ri” (“The Young Benevolent”) (1907-1908) and collaborated with the organs “Gazeta e re” (“The New Newspaper”), “Revista pedagogjike” (“The Pedagogical Magazine”) etc. He enriched the Albanian school of the time with a number of necessary texts: “Ndolli historije t’motshme” (“Events of old stories”) (1911), “Abetar i vogël për Msojtore” (“Small Primer for Schools”) (1914), “Libër leximi për shkolla të mesme” (“Reading book for high schools”) (1920), “Libër i mësuesit për përdorim t’abetarit prej Mati Logorecit” (“Teacher’s book for primer use by Mati Logoreci”) (pa vit botimi), “Fjalorth i librit të leximit për moshën e njomë” (“Glossary of the reading rook for the young age”) (with about 1000 words, 1934) etc. He worked persistently for the purity of the Albanian language, for its enrichment and for the creation of new words. (In the photo: Mati Logoreci, in 2 photos.)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1533-1534.
Photo: © https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mati_Logoreci
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