Mark Tirta, ethnologist, professor, was born in Orosh of Mirdita. After finishing high school, he worked as a teacher (1955–1957). He completed his higher studies at the history-linguistics department of the University of Tirana (1961). In the years 1961-1968, he worked in education in the district of Mirdita. In 1968 he started working in the ethnography department of the Institute of History and from 1979 in the Institute of Popular Culture. He was mainly concerned with the migrations of the Albanian population and with folk mythology, as well as with the family’s problems, land rights, provincial ethnoculture, clothing and folk art, and the history of Albanian ethnology and its personalities. He is the author of the monographs “Migrime të shqiptarëve” (Migration of Albanians) (1999), “Etnologjia e shqiptarëve” (Ethnology of albanians) (2003, 2006), “Mitologjia ndër shqiptare” (Mythology among albanians) (2004), “Mjeshtëria e kërkimit shkencor në etnologji” (The mastery of scientific research in ethnology) (2006), “Lëvizje migruese shqiptare” (Migration Movements) (published in parts in the country and abroad); co-author in volume I and II of the work “Veshjet popullore shqiptare” (Albanian traditional costumes) (1999, 2001). He has published a number of research articles in the scientific press abroad. Mark Tirta is the author of the manual “Etnologjia e përgjithshme” (General Ethnology)(2001, 2008) and lecturer of the subject of ethnology at the University of Tirana and ethnology of the Balkans and the Mediterranean at the University of Pristina. He also helped in the field of museology. (In the photo: Mark Tirta)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 2715.
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