Naum Veqilharxhi | |
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Born | Naum Panajot Bredhi December 6, 1797 Vithkuq, Korçë, southern Albania, then Ottoman Empire |
Died | 1846[1][2] (Aged 57) Istanbul, Turkey, then Constantinople, Ottoman Empire[3] |
Occupation | Lawyer |
Language | Albanian |
Notable works | Evëtor |
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Naum Veqilharxhi (born Naum Panajot Bredhi; 1797–1846)[1][2] was an Albanian lawyer and scholar. In 1844, he published using a unique alphabet for the Albanian language with characters he had created himself, the Vithkuqi script. Veqilharxhi is one of the most prominent figures of the early Albanian National Awakening, and is considered by Albanians as its first ideologue.[4][5]
Naum Veqilharxhi is considered the avant-garde and first ideologue of the National Awakening, because his work results in one of the first attempts for an original Albanian alphabet (1844 and 1845), as well as contains an embryo form of the ideas which would develop later on during the National Renaissance. [Naum Veqilharxhi është konsideruar si pararendësi dhe ideologu i parë i Rilindjes Kombëtare Shqiptare, sepse vepra e tij përbën një nga përpjekjet e para për një alfabet origjinal të shqipes (1844 dhe 1845), si edhe përmban në trajtë embrionale idetë që do të zhvilloheshin më vonë gjatë periudhës së Rilindjes.]