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Pjetër Mazreku (1584– 27 November 1634[1]) (Italian: Pietro Massarecchi, Latin: Petrus Massarecchius) was an Albanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He wrote documents on the state of Christians in the Ottoman Empire, and a short 33 word Albanian etymological dictionary, preserved as a manuscript.
Mazreku was born in Prizren. He served as the Archbishop of Bar from 1624 to 1634, while in 1631 he became the apostolic visitor of Hungary, Serbia and Slavonia.[2] In 1634 he was ordained as the apostolic administrator of Serbia.[3] Until his death around 1638 he served as Bishop of Prizren.
Mazreku knew many languages, and wrote an etymological dictionary of the Albanian language.[4]
His name was spelt in Latin and Italian as Mazzaretus, Massarechio, Maserecho, Masarecho, Masserecco, Massarecius, etc.[5] In Albanian, his name is spelt Pjetër Mazreku.
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