Albanian publicist, educational administrator and lector
Prof.Dr.Jakup Halil Mato (16 September 1934 in
Fterra,
Albania – 30 August 2005 in
Tirana, Albania) was an
Albanian publicist, educational administrator and lector of Tirana University.
He started publishing his articles and research studies in the field of literature and arts since the beginning of the 1960s. In the 1990s he served as head of Centre of Art Studies of the
Academy of Sciences of Albania.
Biography
After attending the former French Lyceum in
Gjirokastra, Mato was a teacher and principal in the southern Albanian village of Kuç near Vlora. In 1959 he graduated from the
University of Tirana.
He was editor in chief of the newspapper 'Mesuesi'. Until the 1970s, he worked first at the Pedagogical Institute and then as a head of department head in the Ministry of Culture and Education.[1] Mato was then editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Mësuesi" (The Teacher) and was involved in the artistic field.
Among other things, Jakup Mato was director of the Art Academy in Tirana Instituti i Lartë i Arteve, today the
University of Arts Tirana.[1]
Twice, from 1991 till 1993 and 1997 from 1998 was he director of the Arts Research Center (Qendra per Studimin e Arteve) at the
Albanian Academy of Sciences. For many years Mato was a lecturer at the University of Tirana and at the Academy of Arts in the subject of aesthetics. He was also Commissioner of the Encyclopaedia of Albanian Arts.
"Folklordaki mizah ve hiciv artistik araclarinin niteligi” bei IV Milleterasi tuerk halk kueltuerue kongresi program ve bildiri oezetleri Ankara Turqi 1991 f 77
"Emigrants involved in approaching and opposing attitudes to the albanian and italinan cultures në www.afcr-al.org
"The cultural paradoxes and the influneces on emigrants live"(About the book of Dr. Zyhdi Dervishi, "The crossed glimpses on the sea Krahu i shqiponjës 2008