Idriz Ajeti, linguist, albanologist, academic, was born in Tupalla in Medvegja. Among the pioneering linguists of Kosovo, founder and leader of Albanian journals and institutions in Kosovo, president of the Assembly of Kosovo after parallel elections in 1998, participant in the Rambuje Conference in 1999. He completed high school (Madresa e Madre) in Skopje, he started his studies in linguistics in Zagreb and then in Padua, with the Albanianologist Karlo Taljavini. At the same time, he graduated in Romanistics in Belgrade (1949), with the Albanianologist Hemrik Baric. He worked as a professor of Albanian language and literature at the high school in Pristina (1949\u20131953), a lecturer at the Albanianology branch of the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade (1953\u20131960), where in 1958 he defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic: “Historical development of of the dialect of the Albanians of Zara in Dalmatia”. From its foundation, in 1960, for twenty years in a row, he directed the chair of Albanian language and literature at the Faculty of Philosophy in Prishtina, where he taught the courses history of the Albanian language and dialectology. He was the director of the Albanian Institute of Prishtina in 1970-1972 and 1983-1986 and the founder of the International Seminar for Albanian Language, Literature and Culture (Prishtina, 1974), which he directed until 1991. During 1971-1973, he was the dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Pristina, while in the following years, the rector of this university. He was a member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Kosovo since its foundation and chairman in two terms (1979\u20131981 and 1996\u20131999). The main fields of Idriz Ajeti’s scientific studies are: the historical and present-day dialectology of the Albanian language, the history of the Albanian language, historical phonetics and morphology, philology, etymology, the relations of Albanian with the Slavic languages of the Balkans, the history of literary Albanian and issues of norms literary and language culture. He contributed to the organization and holding of the Albanian Spelling Congress (1972). He has provided important help in the influence of Albanian on South Slavic dialects , in the field of historical dialectology studies, in decision-making processes for the standardization of Albanian, etc. His contribution to the development of Albanian studies in Kosovo and the former Yugoslavia was important. Honorary member of the Academy of Sciences of Albania, bearer of many recognitions and decorations, while the President of Albania has declared him “Honour of the Nation”. He passed away in 2019. (In the photo: Idriz Ajeti)<\/i><\/p>\n
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