Jean-Claude Faveyrial: Difference between revisions

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| birth_date = 25 March 1817

| birth_place = [[Usson-en-Forez]], [[Loire (department)|Loire]], [[France]]

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| death_place = [[Bitola]] (Monastir), [[Ottoman Empire]]<br><small>(present-day [[North Macedonia]])</small>

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| occupation = French and philosophy professor, historian

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'''Jean-Claude Faveyrial''', CM (1817–1893) was a [[France|French]] [[Congregation of the Mission|Lazarite]] [[Roman Catholic Church|Roman Catholic]] priest and author of the first written [[History of Albania]].<ref name="Elsie">{{cite web|url=http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts19/AH1884.html |title=Jean-Claude Faveyrial: Histoire de l'Albanie |last=Elsie |first=Robert |language=French |accessdateaccess-date=11 October 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617223301/http://www.albanianhistory.net/texts19/AH1884.html |archivedatearchive-date=17 June 2010 }}</ref> The book is published in Albania and stands as a serious endeavour to document the history of the Albanians and their country since Antiquity.<ref name="Elsie"/><ref name="elsie2003">{{cite web|url=http://www.albanian.dir.bg/studii/kult/st-kult-1-ManastirBG.htm|title=Жан–Клод Фавериал и гр. Манастир в албанската историография|last=Елси|first=Робърт|year=2003|publisher=Албанистика в България|language=Bulgarian|accessdateaccess-date=12 October 2010}}</ref> A long-time teacher in [[Bitola]], he was also deeply involved with the [[Bulgarians|Bulgarian]] movement for independence and was a friend of the [[Aromanians|Aromanian]] people, whose schooling he extensively helped during his lifetime.

Faveyrial was strongly supportive of the Bulgarian struggle for independence, and renowned as being among the souls of that movement. From 1867 until his death, 26 years later, he served as a professor at the [[Romanians|Romanian]] highHigh schoolSchool of [[Bitola]] (Monastir), a city in west [[Macedonia (region)|Macedonia]], where he taught [[French language|French]] and [[philosophy]].<ref name="Elsie"/> For a year before that, he had served as a priest in [[Thessaloniki]].<ref name="elsie2003"/> In Bitola, Favyerial combined his work as a teacher with his religious duties for the Lazarite order as a local [[abbot]].<ref name="cyril1968">{{cite book|author=Патриарх Кирил|title=Принос към униатството в Македония след освободителната война, 1879–1885: доклади на френските консули в Солун|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xs4qAQAAIAAJ&q=%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB&dq=%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB&hl=bg&ei=Apm0TLLnBYSWswahnPiYCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA|year=1968|publisher=Синодално издателство|language=Bulgarian|pages=229, 343}}</ref>

It was in Istanbul that, between 1858 and 1867, Faveyrial started a collection of books with the purpose of building a library that would help write the history of the Albanians, the Bulgarians, and the [[Aromanians]]. His scrutiny of the history of these peoples, he thought, would assist them to prepare for their future. Faveyrial visited the Albanian lands in 1884, and along with [[Apostol Mărgărit]], the general inspector of the [[Romania]]nRomanian schools in the Balkans|Romanian schools of the Ottoman Empire]], he founded [[Kingdom of Romania|Romanian]]-financed schools for the Aromanian population in [[Berat]], [[Korça]], [[Prizren]], and other settlements.<ref name="elsie2003"/>

Faveyrial was an acquaintance of folklorist [[Miladinov Brothersbrothers|Konstantin Miladinov]]<ref name="arnaudov">{{cite book|last=Арнаудов|first=Михаил|title=Творци на Българското възраждане: Поети и герои|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W08NAQAAIAAJ&q=%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB&dq=%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB&hl=bg&ei=IZW0TNXaM87GswbXipGyCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAQ|year=1969|publisher=Наука и изкуство|language=Bulgarian|page=405}}</ref> and public figure [[Dragan Tsankov]].<ref name="elenkov">{{cite book|last=Еленков|first=Иван|title=Католическата църква от източен отряд в България: От времето на нейното учредяване с присъединението на част от българския народ към Рим през 1860 г. до средата на ХХ век|year=2000|publisher=Католическа апостолическа екзархия|language=Bulgarian}}</ref> He even served as ''de facto'' editor-in-chief of Tsankov's Istanbul-based newspaper ''Balgaria'' for several years. Despite their ecclesiastical differences, [[Patriarch of All Bulgaria|Bulgarian patriarch]] [[Cyril of Bulgaria|Cyril]] remembered Faveyrial as a "kind priest".<ref name="cyril1962">{{cite book|author=Патриарх Кирил|title=Католическата пропаганда сред българите|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZcsAAAAIAAJ&q=%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB&dq=%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BB&hl=bg&ei=IZW0TNXaM87GswbXipGyCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAg|year=1962|publisher=Синодално издателство|language=Bulgarian|page=338}}</ref>