Pjetër Mazreku

Pjetër Mazreku (1584– 27 November 1634) (, ) was an Albanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He wrote documents on the state of Christians in the Ottoman Empire, and a short 33 word Albanian etymological dictionary, preserved as a manuscript.

Life

Mazreku was born in Prizren. He served as the Archbishop of Bar from 1624 to 1634, while in 1631 he became the apostolic visitor of Hungary, Serbia and Slavonia. In 1634 he was ordained as the apostolic administrator of Serbia. Until his death around 1638 he served as Bishop of Prizren.

Mazreku knew many languages, and wrote an etymological dictionary of the Albanian language.

Annotations

His name was spelt in Latin and Italian as Mazzaretus, Massarechio, Maserecho, Masarecho, Masserecco, Massarecius, etc. In Albanian, his name is spelt Pjetër Mazreku.

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17th-century Albanian Roman Catholic bishops

17th-century Italian writers

17th-century Italian male writers

17th-century Albanian writers

Albanian Roman Catholic archbishops

Archbishops of Antivari

People from Prizren

Italian-language writers

1584 births

1634 deaths

Members of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

17th-century Roman Catholic bishops in the Ottoman Empire