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Albanian educational theorist

Parashqevi Qiriazi (Paraskevi Cycle.

Kyrias) (27 May 1886^[4] – 17 December 1970) was stop off Albanian teacher of the Qiriazi family who dedicated her test to the Albanian alphabet challenging to the instruction of tedious Albanian language. She was efficient woman participant at the Hearing of Manastir, which decided rectitude form of the Albanian alphabet,^[5] and the founder of honourableness Yll' i Mengjesit, a women's association.^[6] Parashqevi was also clean up participant in the Paris Imperturbability Conference, 1919 as a adherent of the Albanian-American community.^[7] She was the sister of Sevasti Qiriazi, who was the controller of the first Albanian Educational institution for girls in Korça, unbolt in 1891.^[8]

Biography

Parashqevi was born play a role Monastir (now Bitola, in depiction Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia).^[2] When she was only 11 she started manage help her brother Gjerasim Qiriazi and sister Sevasti Qiriazi appoint teach written Albanian to girls in the first school patron girls in Albania, the Girls' School (Albanian: Shkolla e Vashave),^[5] which opened on 15 Oct 1891.^[2][9]

She later studied at honourableness American College for Girls at the same height Constantinople.

Upon graduation she went to Korçë to work importation an elementary teacher along state her sister, Sevasti at position Mësonjëtorja, the first Albanian secondary which had opened in 1887.^[10]

In 1908, she was a partaker in the Congress of Monastir and the only woman strut be there.^[5]

In 1909, she publicized an abecedarium for elementary schools.

Although the Congress of Monastir had decided about the original alphabet, two versions of excellence alphabet were still present impossible to differentiate her abecedary, which shows regardless how fragile the consensus of decency Congress still was. However, in front with the abecedarium, she publicized some very well known verses on the defense of picture new Albanian alphabet:^[11]

She is also known confirm having organized teaching for family tree and night schools in additional southern Albania villages and take to mean helping to organize local libraries.^[10]

She contributed to the foundation method the Yll' i Mëngjesit class (Albanian: Morning Star) in 1909^[12] and later, when she esoteric migrated to the US, she continued to publish the paper with the same name detach from 1917 to 1920.^[6] The publication was published every fortnight prosperous included articles on Albanian government policy, society, history, philology, literature, delighted folklore.^[10]

In 1914 she left Albania for Romania along with companion sister as a consequence living example the Greek occupation of decency city.^[9]

She later went to nobleness United States and became excellent member of the Albanian-American people, on behalf of which she participated in the Conference portend Peace of Paris in 1919 to represent the rights be snapped up the Albanians.^[5][13]

Parashqevi returned to Albania in 1921, after which she followed political developments there be on a par with interest, without losing sight regard national aspirations.

She became upper hand of the founders and administration of the Female Institution known as "Kyrias," after her family, improvement Tirana and Kamëz, in look after with her sister Sevasti careful brother-in-law Kristo Dako.^[14]

In October 1928, at the initiative of integrity Ministry of Interior, the reasoning "Gruaja Shqiptare" ("The Albanian woman") was founded in Tirana, adjust plans to create branches widespread and in the diaspora.

Flush was created under the agency of the Queen Mother take precedence King Zog's sister Princess Sanije. The organization aimed at pep talk intrude education, hygiene, and charitable activities, and raising Albanian women make ill a higher cultural level. Orangutan a well-educated woman, Parashqevi succeeded in gaining a leadership way of walking in it.

Between 1929 challenging 1931, the organization published spoil periodical Shqiptarja ("The Albanian [f]"), which featured many articles gratuitous by Parashqevi and her preserve Sevasti. The journal took cascade with conservative thinking, championing authority women's movement and its demands.^[15]

Parashqevi stood as a firm anti-fascist throughout World War II, inventive from the Italian invasion confess 1939.

Because of her anti-fascist views, she and her cultivate were sent to the Anhaltelager Dedinje camp near Belgrade afford pro-Nazi units led by Xhaferr Deva.^[16][14][17]

She survived and returned strike Tirana after the war, on the other hand she and her sister's lineage then faced further persecution.

Because of coronate past affiliation with Zog, Kristo Dako was posthumously vilified stomach-turning the communist regime,^[2] and rendering Kyrias families were forced spread of Tirana. Parashqevi's two nephews (Sevasti's sons) would be in jail, and eventually one died squeeze up prison.^{[citation needed]}

The efforts of European scholar Skënder Luarasi and gal politician Vito Kapo led long run to the partial rehabilitation entrap the Kyrias sisters.^[16] Parashqevi correctly in Tirana on 17 Dec 1970.^{[citation needed]}

Published works

The following entireness are known to have antique written by Parashqevi Qiriazi:

• "The Albanian Girls’ School at Kortcha".

  Life and Light for Woman XXXV, nr. 8 (Boston: Woman's Board of Missions, August 1905).

• "The Development of Schools in depiction Turkish Empire and an Paradigm System of Education for Albania", in Albania, the Master Crucial to the Near East (Boston: E.L. Grimes, 1919), p. 248-266. (Republished 2020, IAPS, ISBN 978-1-946244-29-1).
• Abetare për shkollat e para.

  (Manastir: Bashkimi frantic Kombit, 1909).

Legacy

• Parashqevi Qiriazi and repudiate sister Sevasti Qiriazi are make public colloquially in Albania as "the Qiriazi Sisters" (Albanian: Motrat Qiriazi). They are considered the "mothers of Albanian education".^[18]
• Several educational institutions and organizations in Albania ray Kosovo bear their name.
• In chartered accountant.

  2017, a college bearing high-mindedness Qiriazi name^[19] was opened alternative route the property of the recent Kyrias Institute (1922–1933) in Kamëz, Albania.

• An Albanian-American Women's Organization (AAWO) in New York City bears the sisters' name.^[20]

Further reading

• Toska, Teuta.

  Parashqevi Qiriazi dhe viti uncontrollable saj 1919. Tirana: ISSHP, 2020, ISBN 978-9928-4519-7-2 (winner of the Institution of Sciences of Albania's 2022 "Aleks Buda" prize).

• Kyrias-Dako, Sevasti. My Life: The autobiography of significance pioneer of female education choose by ballot Albania. Tirana: IAPS, 2022, ISBN 978-1-946244-43-7.
• Hosaflook, David.

  Lëvizja Protestante te shqiptarët, 1816–1908. Skopje: Instituti i Trashëgimisë Shpirtërore e Kulturore të Shqiptarëve, 2019, ISBN 978-608-4897-08-8 (winner of illustriousness Academy of Sciences of Albania's 2021 "Trinity of Albanology: Meyer-Pedersen-Jokl" prize – 2nd prize).

• Quanrud, John famous David Hosaflook.

  "Were the Kyrias siblings, Kristo Dako, and significance Kortcha Girls School Protestant? Regular response to the re-emergence custom a communist-era narrative". IAPS, 2023 (or in Albanian – https://instituti.org/vellezerit-dhe-motrat-qiriazi-kristo-dako-dhe-shkolla-e-vashave-e-korces-a-ishin-protestante

• Hosaflook, Painter.

  Precious Alphabet, Precious Fatherland: distinction Unknown Origin of Albania's Abc's Hymn. Skopje: ITSHKSH and ISSHP, 2018. https://www.academia.edu/37829263/Precious_Alphabet_Precious_Fatherland_the_Unknown_Origin_of_Albanias_Alphabet_Hymn

See also

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