{"id":7393,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/peter-r-prifti\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:11","slug":"peter-r-prifti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/peter-r-prifti\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter R. Prifti"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peter R. Prifti, historian, linguist, publicist, translator, was born in Rehove, Kolonje and emigrated to the United States of America (1940). He completed his postgraduate studies ( bachelor <\/em>, 1949) and master’s degree in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (1955). Secretary of the Pan-Albanian Federation “Vatra” (“Hearth”)(1958-1960) in Boston. He worked at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology <\/em>), in Cambridge (in the Department of International Studies with a focus on Albania, 1961-1976). Albanian language consultant at the Faculty of Linguistics, University of California in San Diego (1976-1980). Author of books: “Socialist Albania since <\/em>1944: Domestic and Foreign Development” <\/em>Cambridge Mass, 1978; “Remote Albania: The politics of isolation”<\/em>, Tirana, 1999. He has published a collection of articles and political and linguistic studies “Confrontation in Kosova: The Albanian-Serb Struggle <\/em>1969–1999″, Columbia University NY, 1999; “<\/span>Gjuha është organizëm i gjallë”<\/span> <\/span>(“Language is a living organism”)(Tirana, 1995). Co-author in the work ” Standard Albanian; A reference Grammar for students <\/em>“, Stanford, California, 1982. He has compiled several entries that belong to Albania in the British Encyclopedia. He was decorated with the “Naim Frashëri” order of Class I. Since 1980, he was a freelancer. He passed away in San Diego (California) in 2010. (Photo: Peter R. Prifti)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Text:<\/span><\/strong> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 3 <\/em>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2009, page 2089.<\/span><\/p>\n

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