The miracle of albanology named Robert Elsie

From: Visar Zhiti

It has been three years since the day of extinction and he shines even brighter with his great Work. Canadian who lived mostly in Europe, in Germany and who rests eternally in the Alps of Albania.

He loved our country so much, he did so much for the Albanian culture, that it can be called the "Miracle of Albanology Robert Elsie".

Deep connoisseur of Albanian and dozens of world languages, diligent translator, surprising researcher, scrupulous historian, art critic, traveling anthologist, photographer, sincere friend, an amazing anthropologist, unnamed chair, unannounced academy, true encyclopedia Albania.

He published frequent books about Albania, Kosovo, Chameria, with courage like no one else, about the Albanian language and its dialects and dialects, making records everywhere, where there are Albanians, among the Albanians in Dalmatia and the Arvanites in Greece, the Arnauts in Turkey and to the phenomenal arboretums in Southern Italy.

He published a history of Albanian literature, nationwide, introducing the first literature that came from prisons. He created an anthology of Albanian prose and poetry, translated the Kanun, folklore, renaissance and contemporary, returned to the alphabets of the Albanian language, discovered 10 before the current one, published books on the great Albanian tribes, on Albanian religions and Bektashism, translated poets again , now special from Kosovo like Ali Podrimjen and Azem Shkrelin etc.; Migenin (in German) and the author of these lines, and went as far as Fishta's "Lahuta e Malcis", the "Albanian Homer", completing, according to him, the European epic with what was missing, in the English language.

He devoted himself to pilgrimage. It came in different seasons in Albania, as well as the old photography. He discovered history-making images from foreign photographers, donated the originals to Albanian institutions, published albums like this, etc. His work is wide and great, from the scientist and lover of Albania. And the Albanians loved him, honored him, gave him titles and medals, but they also forgot him, he seemed ordinary to them, but he remained unchanged. The greatest foreign Albanian, who received the Albanian passport and gave more than the predecessors...

He left prematurely, but he left a timeless work. According to his order, he rests in the mountains of our North, near a church in Theth. Unusual achievements took him to such a height...

A path there, a street in the capital, a cultural institution should be named after him. Why not a mountain.