Ndre Mjeda (Shkodėr, Albania November 20, 1866 - Shkodėr, Albania August 1, 1937) was an Albanian Gheg poet. He was influenced by the Jesuit writer Anton Xanoni and the Franciscan poet Leonardo De Martino .
From 1880 until 1887, Mjeda studied literature at the Carthusian monastery of Porta Coeli , in Valencia, Spain, rhetoric, Latin and Italian in Croatia at a Jesuit institution, at the Gregorian University in Rome, and at another Gregorian college in Chieri , Italy. During these studies, Mjeda began to write Albanian poetry. Some of his most famous poems include Vaji i bylbylit (the nightingale's lament) (1887) and Vorri i Skanderbegut (Skanderbeg's grave).
Mjeda also taught music in Cremona, Italy, at the College of Marco Girolamo Vida from 1887 to 1891, and translated various religious literature. He published published Jeta e sceitit sc’ Gnon Berchmans (the life of St John Berchmans) (1888), and T’ perghjamit e Zojs Bekume (Imitation of the Holy Virgin) (1892), a translation from Spanish, Katekizmi i madh (the great catechism), another translation, and Historia e shejtė (Sacred history).
Mjeda later on studied at Gregorian college in Kraków, Poland, and taught philosophy and philology, as well as served as a librarian at the Gregorian college in Kraljevica , where he was also appointed professor of logic and metaphysics. He was expelled in 1898 after a conflict between Austria-Hungary and the Vatican.
Mjeda served as a member of the Literary Commission , in Shkodėr, under the Austro-Hungarian administration, as well as a deputy in the National Assembly of Albania . He left politics after Fan Noli's defeat, and the rize of King Zog. He then served as a parish priest in Kukėl , and taught the Albanian language and literature at the Jesuit college in Shkodėr until his death.
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The facts on this biography were originally gathered from Albanianliterature.com.
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