{"id":7393,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/peter-r-prifti\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:11","slug":"peter-r-prifti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/peter-r-prifti\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter R. Prifti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Peter R. Prifti, historian, linguist, publicist, translator, was born in Rehove, Kolonje and emigrated to the United States of America (1940). He completed his postgraduate studies ( <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">bachelor <\/em>, 1949) and master&#8217;s degree in philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania (1955). Secretary of the Pan-Albanian Federation &#8220;Vatra&#8221; (&ldquo;Hearth&rdquo;)(1958-1960) in Boston. He worked at MIT (<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Massachusetts Institute of Technology <\/em>), in Cambridge (in the Department of International Studies with a focus on Albania, 1961-1976). Albanian language consultant at the Faculty of Linguistics, University of California in San Diego (1976-1980). Author of books: &#8220;<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Socialist Albania since <\/em>1944: <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Domestic and Foreign Development&rdquo; <\/em>Cambridge Mass, 1978; &#8220;<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Remote Albania: The politics of isolation&#8221;<\/em>, Tirana, 1999. He has published a collection of articles and political and linguistic studies &#8220;<em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Confrontation in Kosova: The Albanian-Serb Struggle <\/em>1969&ndash;1999&#8243;, Columbia University NY, 1999; &#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Gjuha &euml;sht&euml; organiz&euml;m i gjall&euml;&rdquo;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\"> <\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">(&ldquo;Language is a living organism&rdquo;)(Tirana, 1995). Co-author in the work &#8221; <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Standard Albanian; A reference Grammar for students <\/em>&#8220;, Stanford, California, 1982. He has compiled several entries that belong to Albania in the British Encyclopedia. He was decorated with the &#8220;Naim Frash&euml;ri&#8221; order of Class I. Since 1980, he was a freelancer. He passed away in San Diego (California) in 2010. <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">(Photo: Peter R. Prifti)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"line-height: 115%; border: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 3 <\/em>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 2089.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal1\" style=\"line-height: 115%; border: none; mso-padding-alt: 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt 31.0pt; mso-border-shadow: yes;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Photo: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">&copy; <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gazetadielli.com\/kujtojme-editorin-e-diellitsekretarin-e-vatres-peter-r-prifti-2\/\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">https:\/\/gazetadielli.com\/kujtojme-editorin-e-diellitsekretarin-e-vatres-peter-r-prifti-2\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter R. 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