Conference on the 90th anniversary of Martin Camaj's birth

On the 90th anniversary of the birth of Martin Camaj, the University of Elbasan, namely the Departments of Language and Literature-Journalism, have organized a scientific conference, in memory of this prominent figure of Albanian intellectual thought. Invited to this conference was Martin Camaj's wife, Erika Camaj, who came specifically to be part of Germany.

Speaking at the opening of this conference the Rector of "Alexander Xhuvani" University Prof.Dr. Liman Varoshi, welcomed the attendees and focused on the activity and complexity of Martin Camaj's figure in the Albanian space. “Our knowledge, university and academic knowledge, has great obligations to the figure of Martin Camaj, writer and scientist, albanologist and professor, with inevitable contributions to the history of Albanian language, writing and alphabetism, in ethnology and anthropology, in Studying the dialects, of the history of national literature from the beginnings to the contemporary, from John Buzuki's Meshari and Bogdan's work, to Ismail Kadare, ”said Rector Liman Varoshi during his speech.

Meanwhile, Rector Varoshi during his speech has also emphasized the importance of Martin Camaj's literary work, which for 30 years lacked Albanian readers, due to the dictatorship, emphasizing the intention of the University of Elbasan to be studied at Master levels , in order to specialize a generation of scholars worthy of dealing with its interpretation.

Focusing on the history of Martin Camaj's life, Rector Liman Varoshi said: “Martin Camaj left Albania when he saw that it was the danger of totalitarianism and control by the world leadership. Official Albania never opened its doors, the official press never mentioned its name. Nearly a century Albanian science and culture, as if Martin Caman, personality and phenomenon, did not exist. But Camaj never confused official Albania, with Albania's hometown. Not even a single occasion for him to have slandered his country, he has rebuked him in the eyes of the strangers, to have separated himself from it. So to speak, Camaj loved his place with all the pain he was experiencing ”

After the Rector's speech Prof.Dr. Liman Varoshi and Academician Rexhep Ismajli and Prof.Dr. Shaban Sinani, have appreciated in their speech, Martin Camaj's intellectual work and intellectual dimension, emphasizing once again the importance of his studies in several areas, where in each of them, he has not only left an excellent heritage but an important basis of the Albanian intellectual thought fund.

Meanwhile, in honor of his work and the act of his wife, who gave much of the library of Martin Camaj to the University of Elbasan library, one of the library will now bear the name "Martin Camaj".

Martin Camaj was born in Temal, Dukagjini in 1927. In 1935 he finally settled in Shkodra and completed his studies at Jesuit College "Xaverianum". Camaj became part of the anti -communist resistance after 1944 and in 1948 managed to escape from Albania to escape persecution. Initially settled in Belgrade, where he finishes his studies at the University of the Yugoslav capital, in the branch of Roman philology with Italian language and literature. He then settled in Italy, where under the direction of Ernest Koliqi, in 1960, he defends his doctoral thesis at the University of Rome, with John Buzuki's "Meshari". In 1960 he went to Munich, Germany, where after completing a 10-month course, he began teaching at Ludwig-Maximilian University. It was in Munich that he would spend his entire life until he died on March 12, 1992.