Anton Çetta
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Anton Çeta[1] (born in 1920 in Gjakova, Kosovo then former Yugoslavia - died in 1995 in Prishtina, Kosovo, was a folklorist, academician and university professor.
He completed elementary school in his hometown in Kosovo, whereas secondary school in Tirana and Korça in Albania. He graduated in Roman languages and culture at the University of Belgrade. For a period of time he worked as assistant professor at the department of Albanian Studies in Belgrade. From 1960 to 1968 he lectured Old Albanian Literature, The History of Literature, and Latin language at the University of Pristina.
From 1968 he was chief of the Department of Folklore at The Institute of Albanian Studies in Pristina. Since 1959, Çetta was collecting folklore material from all regions of Kosovo. From 1953 to 1987 he published 16 books of collected folklore from all regions of Kosovo (this includes fairy tales, myths, ballads, legends, songs etc.).
In 1990 he was the founder of the Reconciliation Committee for erasing blood feuds in Kosovo (Albanian: Komiteti për pajtimin e gjaqeve në Kosovë) which erased almost all blood-related hatred among Albanians in Kosovo in the 1990s. He also was president of the Mother Teresa Association, which provided medical care to people in Kosovo, a position taken over after his death by Don Lush Gjergji, his long time collaborator in the anti blood feud campaign.
On 30 April 2010, he was awarded with the "Golden Medal for Peace, Democracy and Humanism-Dr. Ibrahim Rugova" prize, by the Kosovan president Fatmir Sejdiu.[2]
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- ^ His name in Serbo-Croatian, is rendered as: Anton Četa
- ^ "Sejdiu dekoroi Anton Çettën me “Medaljen e Artë...”" (in Albanian). Pristina, Kosovo: Telegrafi. 30 April 2010. http://www.telegrafi.com/?id=2&a=8373. Retrieved 30 April 2010. "Presidenti i Republikës së Kosovës, Fatmir Sejdiu ka dekoruar profesor Anton Çettën me “Medaljen e Artë për Paqe, Demokraci dhe Humanizëm-Dr. Ibrahim Rugova”."
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