Andrea Bogdani
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| birth_date = ca. 1600
| birth_place = Gur in Hasit, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Kosovo)Robert Elsie Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History, Centre for Albanian Studies (London, England), I.B.Tauris, 2013, {{ISBN|1780764316}}, p. 44.
| death_date = 1683
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| nationality = Ottoman-Albanian
| occupation = Catholic priest
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| relatives = Pjetër Bogdani (Nephew)
| family = Bogdani
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Andrea Bogdani ({{langx|sq|Andrea Bogdani}}; ca. 1600–1683) was an Ottoman scholar of Albanian origin and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
Life
Andrea Bogdani was born at the beginning of the 17th century, in Gur i Hasit, near Prizren, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Kosovo). Bogdani was educated by Jesuits at the Illyrian College in Loreto.{{cite book|last=umetnosti|first=Srpska akademija nauka i|title=Posebna izdanja|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwESD8ORlbcC|year=1950|page=244}}
After completing his education in Loreto, he became a parish in Pristina.{{cite book|last=Umetnosti|first=Srpska akademija nauka i|title=Glas|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zNMrAQAAIAAJ|year=1946|page=73}} From 1656 to 1677, when he resigned he served as Archbishop of Skopje, while from 1675 to 1677 he also served as apostolic administrator of Achrida.{{cite book|last=Elsie|first=Robert|author2=Centre for Albanian Studies|title=Albanian literature: a short history|publisher=I.B.Tauris|year=2005|pages=27–8|isbn=1-84511-031-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ox3Wx1Nl_2MC&pg=PA27}} On 8 November 1677 Bogdano resigned because of illness.{{cite book|title=Glasnik na Institutot za nacionalna istorija|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oZpAAAAMAAJ|year=1972|publisher=Institut|page=255|quote= По оставката на болниот надбискуп на скопската надбис- купија Андрија Богдани на 8 ноември 1677 година, надбискуп }} His nephew Petro Bogdano, one of the best-known writers of early Albanian literature succeeded him as Archbishop of Skopje in 1677. Andrea Bogdano has become known for writing the first Latin-Albanian grammar book,{{cite book|last=Marmullaku|first=Ramadan|title=Albania and the Albanians|publisher=C. Hurst|year=1975|pages=17|isbn=0-903983-13-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v3S4AAAAIAAJ}} now lost.
Serbian historian Samardžić criticized Bogdani's works as forgery and revisionism of the Serbian medieval history.{{Sfn|Samardžić|1993|p=100}} Bogdani distinguished himself as great enemy of Serbs.{{cite book|last=umetnosti|first=Srpska akademija nauka i|title=Posebna izdanja|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwESD8ORlbcC|year=1950|page=347|quote=Иначе надбискуп Богдани, као и раније, истиче се као велики противник Срба}} He considered Orthodox Serbs as enemies of Catholics and wrote that the Orthodox Serbs in Kosovo, while also being protected by the Ottomans, were trying to extract money from the Catholics.Kosovo: A Short History p. 207{{cite book|title=Историски записи|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O4niAAAAMAAJ|year=1954|publisher=с.н.|page=328|quote=Андрија Богдани из Јањева каже да су православни исто толики противници католика колико и Турци...}}
See also
Sources
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References
- {{cite book|last=Samardžić|first=Radovan|title=Istorija srpskog naroda: pt. 1-2. Srbi pod tudinskom vlashdu 1537-1699|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eHNpAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Srpska knjiiževna zadruga}}
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Category:Albanian people from the Ottoman Empire
Category:17th-century writers from the Ottoman Empire
Category:17th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the Ottoman Empire
Category:17th-century Albanian Roman Catholic priests
Category:Members of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
Category:Anti-Serbian sentiment