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Mark Krasniqi (Serbian: Марк Краснићи, Mark Krasnići) is a Kosovo Albanian ethnographer, publicist, writer, and translator. He was born on October 19, 1920 in Glavičica (Kokaj), near Peć, in the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He finished his elementary school in Peć and attended high school in Prizren, finishing it in 1941. After high school, he studied literature in University of Padova, Italy and after the World War II he studied Geography and Ethnography in the University of Belgrade, where he graduated in 1950.

After his graduation until the end of 1961 he worked in the Science Academy in Belgrade, in the Institute of Ethnography, being one of the few Albanians to get a membership in the Yugoslavian Academy of Science. From 1961 he is a professor in the University of Pristina; he is also a member of Science Academy of Kosovo. He earned his PhD in the University of Ljubljana in 1960. He published various studies and scientific books on ethnography and geography as well as textbooks. He was most widely known as a writer, especially for his poetry for children.

Publications

Scientific studies

  • Contemporary socio-geographical changes in Kosovo and Dukagjin (1963), in Serbo-Croatian, Museum of Kosovo, Prishtina
  • Trails and tracking, Ethnographic studies, 1979
  • "Lugu i Baranit", Ethnographic monograph, 1985
  • Rugova, Ethnographic monograph (as co-author), 1987
  • From the source of traditions, Ethnographic studies, 1991
  • Mythological aspects, faiths and beliefs, 1997
  • Our ethnic roots, 2001

Textbooks

  • Economical geography, permanent faculty text, 1985 (4th edition, previous three in Serbian)
  • Geography of Yugoslavia, high school text, 1975
  • Geography for elementary school, VIII grade, 3rd editions, 1978

Publicistics

  • Positioning and reactions, Prishtina, 1995
  • Kosovo today, 1992, in German and English
  • Endeavors for Kosovo, 2001

Poetry

Translations

As co-translator

References

  1. ^ Elsie, Robert (2004). Historical dictionary of Kosova. Scarecrow Press. p. 103. ISBN 0-8108-5309-4.
  2. Academy of Science and Arts of Kosovo-Members (in Albanian)

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