{"id":7868,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/jakup-mato\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:51","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:51","slug":"jakup-mato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/jakup-mato\/","title":{"rendered":"Jakup Mato"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jakup <\/span>Ma<\/span>to<\/span>, a critic, esthete, and researcher of <\/span>li<\/span>te<\/span>ra<\/span>ture and the arts, passed away in Ti<\/span>ra<\/span>na. Born in the village of <\/span>Fterrë<\/span> in Sa<\/span>ra<\/span>nda in 19<\/span>34, he completed his higher studies in Albanian language and <\/span>li<\/span>te<\/span>ra<\/span>ture at the University of Ti<\/span>ra<\/span>na in 1959. <\/span>Ma<\/span>to worked as a <\/span>li<\/span>te<\/span>ra<\/span>ture specia<\/span>li<\/span>st, serving as editor-in-chief of the newspaper “<\/span>Mësuesi<\/span>” (“The Teacher”) and later as the director of arts in <\/span>the Ministry of Education and Culture in 1970. He directed the Higher Institute of Arts from 1987 to 1992 and <\/span>subsequently<\/span> became a scientific worker and director of the Study Center of Arts at the Academy of Sciences. His notable pub<\/span>li<\/span>cations include “Ris<\/span>i <\/span>të<\/span> letërsisë<\/span> shqipe<\/span>” (“Innovation of Albanian <\/span>Li<\/span>te<\/span>ra<\/span>ture”) (1983), “<\/span>Pa<\/span>ra<\/span>dokset<\/span> e <\/span>satirës<\/span> dhe<\/span> të<\/span> humorit<\/span>” (“Pa<\/span>ra<\/span>doxes of Satire and Humor”) (2000), and “<\/span>Poetika<\/span> e <\/span>d<\/span>ra<\/span>ma<\/span>turgjisë<\/span> dhe<\/span> mendimit<\/span> estetik<\/span>” (“Poetics of D<\/span>ra<\/span>ma<\/span>turgy and Aesthetic Thought”) (2005), <\/span>along with numerous critical and scientific articles exploring <\/span>li<\/span>te<\/span>ra<\/span>ture and the inte<\/span>ra<\/span>ction of the arts. In his studies, <\/span>Ma<\/span>to addressed various aesthetic issues and theories related to <\/span>li<\/span>te<\/span>ra<\/span>ture and the arts, closely examining contempo<\/span>ra<\/span>ry developments <\/span>and historical perspectives within Albanian arts. <\/span><\/span>(In the photo: <\/em><\/span>Jakup <\/span>Ma<\/span>to<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2<\/span><\/span>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Krista<\/span>li<\/span>na-KH”, Ti<\/span>ra<\/span>na, 2008, page 1657.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© https:\/\/gazetavat<\/span>ra<\/span>.com\/prof-dr-jakup-<\/span>ma<\/span>to\/<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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G<\/span>ra<\/span><\/strong>phic processing<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>AHCF<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jakup Mato, a critic, aesthetician, literary and arts researcher, and professor, passed away in Tirana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11478,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions\/11478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}