Ndre Mjeda

Ndre Mjeda was born on the 20^th November 1866; he died on the 1^st august 1937. He was a poet from Albania. Mjeda was influenced by the Franciscan poet Leonardo De Martino and the Jesuit writer Anton Xanoni.

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Education

From the year 1880 to the year 1887, Mjeda studied literature at the Carthusian monastery of Porta Coeli in Valencia, Spain, rhetoric, Latin and Italian in the Croatian at a Jesuit instituition, at the Gregorian University in Rome and also another Gegorian college that is in Chieri, Italy. At the time of his studies, he started writing Albanian poetry. Some of his most prominent poems are Vaji i Bylbylit that he wrote in the year 1887 and and Vorri i Skanderbegut.

Mjeda taught music in Cremona, Italy, at the college of Marco Girolmano Vida from the year 1887 to the year 1891 and he translated several religious literature. He was the man that published Jeta e sceitit sc' Gnon Berchmans (1888), and T' perghjamit e Zojs Bekume (1892), a translation from Spanish, Katekizmi i Madh, and Historia e Shejtë.

Later he studied theology at the college in Krakow, Poland and he taught philosophy and philology and he also worked as a librarian at the Gregorian college in Kraljevica, where he was appointed to be a professor of logic and metaphysics. He was expelled after the conflict between Austria-Hungary and the Vatican.

Mjeda also worked as a member of the literacy commission in Shkoder, under the administration of the Austro-Hungary. He worked as a deputy in the National Assembly of the country. He left the politics of the country after the rise of the King Zog. Then he worked as a Parish Priest in Kukel and taught the language and literature of Albania at the Jesuit college of Shkoder till he died.