Andrea Dara, arbëresh folklorist and linguist, father of the famous poet Gavril Dara Jr., died on April 2nd, 1872. He is the author of a the Albanian grammar published in 1830 a work on the customs and traditions of the Arbëresh villages, who was published in 1859, of a bilingual Italian-Albanian dictionary and a of volume of folk songs of Sicily Arberesh. Many of his unpublished studies and writings are in the funds of the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen.
You may also like
-
2 September 1500, the oldest Albanian school opened outside the country, in Venice
-
2 September 1858, at the request of Said Toptani, was opened in Tirana secular schools
-
2 September 1878, the League of Prizren, asks Mehmet Ali Pasha leave
-
2 September 1892, was born Dom Lazer Shantoja, clergyman and writer
-
2 Shtator 1909, u çel “Normalja” e Elbasanit; e para shkollë e mesme pedagogjike