Gregory of Durrës
Gregory of Durrës (Albanian: Gregori i Durrësit; Grigor Konstantinidhi; Greek: Γρηγόριος ο Δυρραχίου, romanized: Grêgorios ho Dyrrakhíu; Latin: Gregorius Dyrrhachii; Gregory of Dyrrachium) (or Gregory the Printer) (c. 1701–1772) was an Albanian scholar, printer, typographer, and teacher, and an Eastern Orthodox Christian monk and cleric of Ottoman Albania who is thought to have invented a particular Albanian alphabetic script, the Elbasan script, used to write the Elbasan Gospel Manuscript. The manuscript is one of the oldest known pieces of Albanian Orthodox literature, as well as the oldest known Orthodox Bible translation into Albanian.
Grigor Konstantinidhi | |
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| Grêgorios ho Dyrrakhíu | |
Portrait of Gregory of Durrës, from a book printed in Moscopole (1742) | |
| Born | c.1701 Ottoman Albania |
| Died | 1772 (aged c. 75) |
| Nationality | Albanian |
| Occupation(s) | Printer, teacher at the New Academy of Moscopole, inventor of Elbasan script |
| Notable work | Elbasan Gospel Manuscript |
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