WRITER

Kostandin Kristoforidhi

1827 - 1895

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Kostandin Nelko (22 May 1827 – 7 March 1895), known as Kostandin Kristoforidhi, was an Albanian translator and scholar. He is mostly known for having translated the New Testament into Albanian for the first time in the Gheg Albanian dialect in 1872. He also provided a translation in Tosk Albanian in 1879 thereby improving the 1823 tosk version of Vangjel Meksi. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kostandin Kristoforidhi has received more than 73,760 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Kostandin Kristoforidhi is the 4,460th most popular writer (down from 4,102nd in 2019), the 58th most popular biography from Albania and the 8th most popular Albanian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Kostandin Kristoforidhi ranks 4,460 out of 7,302Before him are Jan Myrdal, Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Einar Benediktsson, Helen Thomas, Dai Sijie, and Sakina Akhundzadeh. After him are Joe Abercrombie, Ava, Ladislav Mňačko, Titus Quinctius Atta, Pelagonius, and Robert Greene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Kostandin Kristoforidhi ranks 50Before him are Duke William of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Nakahama Manjirō, Nikolay Beketov, Jacques-Louis Soret, Petko Slaveykov, and Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov. After him are Lydia Becker, William Dwight Whitney, Ramón Emeterio Betances, Karl Maximovich, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, and Lev Lagorio. Among people deceased in 1895, Kostandin Kristoforidhi ranks 66Before him are Petko Slaveykov, Felix Hoppe-Seyler, Nikolay Girs, Woldemar, Prince of Lippe, Silvestro Lega, and Zygmunt Szczęsny Feliński. After him are Thomas Francis Wade, Friedrich Tietjen, Heinrich von Sybel, Knud Knudsen, George Newbold Lawrence, and Louise Otto-Peters.

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In Albania

Among people born in Albania, Kostandin Kristoforidhi ranks 58 out of 150Before him are Inva Mula (1963), Bleona (1979), Pjetër Arbnori (1935), Shefqet Vërlaci (1877), Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (1911), and Mehdi Frashëri (1872). After him are Xhafer Ypi (1880), Ylli Bufi (1948), Pashko Vasa (1825), Pandeli Evangjeli (1859), Mikel Koliqi (1900), and Fatos Kongoli (1944).

Among WRITERS In Albania

Among writers born in Albania, Kostandin Kristoforidhi ranks 8Before him are Naim Frashëri (1846), Muhammad Nasiruddin al-Albani (1914), Sami Frashëri (1850), Dritëro Agolli (1931), Aleksandër Stavre Drenova (1872), and Millosh Gjergj Nikolla (1911). After him are Pashko Vasa (1825), Fatos Kongoli (1944), Ndre Mjeda (1866), Fatos Arapi (1930), Shaqe Çoba (1875), and Ornela Vorpsi (1968).