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Gjon Gazuli

Albanian friar, scholar and diplomat

Field	Value
name	Gjon Gazuli
birth_date	1400
death_date
death_place	Dubrovnik, Republic of Ragusa
occupation	Friar, writer, diplomat
nationality	Albanian
movement	Humanist
relatives	Pal Gazuli (1405–1470) - Brother, Andrea Gazuli (Brother)
honorific_prefix	The Reverend
honorific_suffix	OP

Gjon Gazuli, OP (, ) was a Dominican friar, humanist scholar, astronomer and diplomat from the Republic of Ragusa of Albanian origin.

Name

He is known in Albanian as Gjon Gjin Gazuli, or even Gjin Gazulli. In Croatian he is known as Ivan Gazulić, Ivan Gazul and Ivan Gazoli Not to be confused with Dom Gjon Gazulli, an Albanian Catholic Cleric, executed by Ahmet Zogu's regime in 1927.

Life

Gazuli attended schools in Shkodër and Dubrovnik, and in 1430 he graduated from the University of Padua. He lived and worked in Dominican Friary in Dubrovnik. In 1432 he traveled to the Hungarian royal court where he attempted to persuade Sigismund I to support Albanian resistance against the Ottoman Empire. He broke his mission off in 1433, when he was appealed to be a professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Padua. Years later he was acting as a diplomat with the Italian principalities' courts, representing the interests of Skanderbeg and of the League of Lezhë.

His lasting mathematical and astronomical works were written in Latin. He had a reputation for considerable knowledge in Italy and in Hungary, as well. His brother, Pal Gazuli (1405–1470), was the diplomat of Skanderbeg and of the League of Lezhë in Ragusa. He had a second brother named Andrea Gazuli, also mentioned as prominent.

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References

[http://proleksis.lzmk.hr/22885/ Proleksis enciklopedija LZMK] ''Gazuli (Gazulić), Gjin (Ivan, Joannes)'' Refresged: February 20, 2014. Accessed June 9, 2016 (in Croatian)
(in Croatian) [http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/133715 Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine, Vol.3. No.5-6 Prosinac 1977.] Vladimir Bazala: ''Nekoliko hrvatskih prirodoslovaca - filozofa'', p. 182-183 (accessed June 9, 2016)
(in Italian) [http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/192242 SRAZ LVIII, 2013.] Smiljka Malinar: ''Tideo Acciarini, un magister scholarum d’Oltreadriatico nella Dalmazia umanistica'', p. 80
(in Croatian) [http://hrcak.srce.hr/file/142834 RADOVI - Zavod za hrvatsku povijest, vol. 44, 2012] Tomislav Matić: ''Renesansa u državi Matijaša Korvina u suvremenoj historiografiji'', p. 238 (accessed June 9, 2016) Quote: "... dominikancu i astrologu Gjinu Gazulliju (Johannes Gazulus, odnosno Ivan Gazulić u hrvatskoj tradiciji"
(2012-03-12). "Gjergj Erebara, Akuza: Ahmet Zogu vari priftin intelektual më 1927". Drini Magazine.
{{harvnb. Frashëri. 2002

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