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Parashqevi Qiriazi
Parashqevi Qiriazi (Paraskevi D. Kyrias) (27 May 1886 – 17 December 1970) was an Albanian teacher, school director, and publisher who dedicated her life to education in written Albanian. She was a participant at the Congress of Manastir (1908), which decided the characters of the modern Albanian alphabet, and was one of the only female delegates sent to represent her nation at the Paris Peace Conference (1919).
Parashqevi was born in Monastir, in the Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). When she was only 11 she started to help her brother Gjerasim Qiriazi and sister Sevasti Qiriazi to teach written Albanian to girls[citation needed] in the first school for girls in Albania, the Girls' School (Albanian: Shkolla e Vashave), which opened on 15 October 1891.
She later studied at the American College for Girls at Constantinople. Upon her graduation in 1904, she went to Korçë to relieve her sister Sevasti as director of the Girls School.
In 1908, she was a participant in the Congress of Monastir and the only woman to be there.[citation needed]
In 1909, she published an abecedarium for elementary schools. Although the Congress of Monastir had decided about the new alphabet, two versions of the alphabet were still present in her abecedary, which shows how fragile the consensus of the Congress still was. However, along with the abecedarium, she published some very well known verses on the defense of the new Albanian alphabet:
She is also known for having organized teaching for children and night schools in other southern Albania villages and for helping to organize local libraries.
She contributed to the foundation of the Yll' i Mëngjesit association (Albanian: Morning Star) in 1909 and later, when she had migrated to the US, she continued to publish the periodical with the same name from 1917 to 1920. The magazine was published every fortnight and included articles on Albanian politics, society, history, philology, literature, and folklore.
In 1914 she left Albania for Romania along with her sister as a consequence of the Greek occupation of the city.
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Parashqevi Qiriazi
Parashqevi Qiriazi (Paraskevi D. Kyrias) (27 May 1886 – 17 December 1970) was an Albanian teacher, school director, and publisher who dedicated her life to education in written Albanian. She was a participant at the Congress of Manastir (1908), which decided the characters of the modern Albanian alphabet, and was one of the only female delegates sent to represent her nation at the Paris Peace Conference (1919).
Parashqevi was born in Monastir, in the Manastir Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (present-day North Macedonia). When she was only 11 she started to help her brother Gjerasim Qiriazi and sister Sevasti Qiriazi to teach written Albanian to girls[citation needed] in the first school for girls in Albania, the Girls' School (Albanian: Shkolla e Vashave), which opened on 15 October 1891.
She later studied at the American College for Girls at Constantinople. Upon her graduation in 1904, she went to Korçë to relieve her sister Sevasti as director of the Girls School.
In 1908, she was a participant in the Congress of Monastir and the only woman to be there.[citation needed]
In 1909, she published an abecedarium for elementary schools. Although the Congress of Monastir had decided about the new alphabet, two versions of the alphabet were still present in her abecedary, which shows how fragile the consensus of the Congress still was. However, along with the abecedarium, she published some very well known verses on the defense of the new Albanian alphabet:
She is also known for having organized teaching for children and night schools in other southern Albania villages and for helping to organize local libraries.
She contributed to the foundation of the Yll' i Mëngjesit association (Albanian: Morning Star) in 1909 and later, when she had migrated to the US, she continued to publish the periodical with the same name from 1917 to 1920. The magazine was published every fortnight and included articles on Albanian politics, society, history, philology, literature, and folklore.
In 1914 she left Albania for Romania along with her sister as a consequence of the Greek occupation of the city.
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