{"id":6876,"date":"2023-10-12T11:48:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-12T11:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/10\/12\/engjell-mashi\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:51:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:51:29","slug":"engjell-mashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2023\/10\/12\/engjell-mashi\/","title":{"rendered":"Engj\u00ebll Mashi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Engj\u00ebll Mashi (1758\u20131821) passed away. He was an Arb\u00ebresh scholar of Albanian history and folklore. He was born in the village of Sh\u00ebn Sofia. He studied at the College of St. Adrian in St. Mit\u00ebr (Calabria) in 1758 and studied law in Naples. He worked as a lawyer. His main work is &#8220;Discorso sull&#8217;origine, i costumi e lo stato attuale degli Albanesi del Regno di Napoli&#8221; (Speech on the Origin, Customs, and Current State of the Albanians of the Kingdom of Naples), published in Naples in 1807. Engj\u00ebll Mashi argues for the autochthony of Albanians and their descent from the Pelasgians, writes about the struggle of Albanians for freedom, and calls for the recognition of Arb\u00ebresh by the Kingdom of Naples as a distinct nationality. The work influenced the Arb\u00ebresh people of Italy and Albanian nationalists in the 19th century. Its first publication was translated into French by the geographer K. Maltebrun, which made Albanians known in the outside world. The work also influenced the cultured Italian public opinion of the time. <i>(In the photo: Angel Mashi)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 2 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 1649-1650.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/www.zgjohushqiptar.info\/&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engj\u00ebll Mashi (1758\u20131821) passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1162,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9521,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions\/9521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}