Shtjefën Gjeçovi born Mëhill Kostandin Gjeçi-Kryeziu was an Albanian

Albanians

Albanians are a nation and ethnic group native to Albania and neighbouring countries. They speak the Albanian language. More than half of all Albanians live in Albania and Kosovo...

 Catholic priest, ethnologist and folklorist. He is known for being the father of Albanians' folklore studies.

He collected and wrote Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit

Kanuni i Lekë Dukagjinit

The Kanun is a set of traditional Albanian laws. The Kanun was primarily oral and only in the 20th century was it published in writing...

, a set of traditional Albanian

Albania

Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...

 customary laws that was published in 1933 (after he was shot in Đakovica 1929). He was also an important collector of the Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors

Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors

Albanian Songs of the Frontier Warriors are part of the traditional cycle of the Albanian epic songs. They took their definite form in 17th and 18th century and were orally transmitted by the Albanian bards. The songs were first time recorded in written form in the first decades of the 20th...

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