Robert Elsie, Albanology scholar and Fishta’s translator, has passed away
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The noted scholar of Albanogy, Robert Elsie, a Canadian of German
origin, has passed away at 67 in Berlin, this Sunday, after suffering
from a serious disease.
Elsie was born in 1950 in Vancouver, Canda. He graduated at the British Columbia University for classic philology and grammar in 1972.
He attended further studies in Berlin, Paris, Dublin and Bonn, where he defended his PhD in 1978.
From this year he started visiting Albania several times, for scientific meetings that were held between Albania’s Science Academy and Bonn’s University of Language. For 11 years, from 2002 to 2013, he worked for the Court of Hague.
The Minister of Culture, Mirela Kumbaro, said they have contacted with Elsie’s releatives, while writer Acka says that his testament was to be buried in Albania.
“I lost a close friend, but Albania’s culture is the one losing the most. He is one of the last scholars who studied Albanian language. This job was a passion for him, not a duty. In these 25 years that man has done more than Albanian institutions that were paid by the state budget”, Kumbaro said.
Elsie has written several books, has translated Albanian books into foreign languages, including father Gjergj Fishta’s “Lahuta e Malsise”. He has left an important virtual library through his online page.
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