Gaspër Krasniqi

Gaspër Krasniqi (died 1876; in Italian: Gasparo or Gaspare Crasnich),^[1][2] also referred as Joshtar Krasnik, Gashpar Krasnik, or Don Karlo Krasnik,^[3] was an Albanian Roman Catholic priest who served as Vicar Apostolic of the Diocese of Skopje.^[4]

Krasniqi served as abbot of the St. Alexander church in Orosh, Mirdita, in today's Albania.^[2] On 24 June 1839, he was appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Skopje.^[5]
In 1849, he functioned as intermediate between Bid Doda Pasha and Mark Prenk Lleshi, representatives of Mirdita, and the Internal Minister of the Principality of Serbia Ilija Garašanin, regarding Mirdita's cooperation with Serbia and Montenegro against the Ottoman Empire.^[6] Again, during the Montenegrin–Ottoman War (1861–62), he helped organizing the Northern Albanian Catholic tribes for an uprising against the Ottomans, with the support of French emissaries of Napoleon III. He was subsequently arrested by the Ottomans.^[7]
He died in 1876.^[2]

See also

• Pjeter Bogdani
• Krasniqi

References

1. Martin Camaj (2010). Wir sind die Deinen: Studien zur albanischen Sprache, Literatur und Kulturgeschichte, dem Gedenken an Martin Camaj (1925-1992) gewidmet. Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 514–. ISBN 978-3-447-06221-3.
2. Robert Elsie (24 April 2015). The Tribes of Albania,: History, Society and Culture. I.B.Tauris. pp. 226–. ISBN 978-0-85773-932-2.
3. Sadulla Brestovci (1983). Marrëdhëniet shqiptare--serbo-malazeze (1830-1878). Instituti Albanologjik i Prishtinës. p. 82.
4. Father Gaspar Crasnich
5. Gaetano Moroni (1853). Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da s. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni. Tipogr. Emiliana. pp. 234–.
6. Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti (1985). Posebna izdanja. Vol. 566–567. p. 127. ...а од 1846 је у вези са мирдитским опатом Гаспаром Красником, захваљујући коме је дошло и до споразума о заједничкој акцији са мирдитским кнезом Боб Додом 1849. године.
7. Aleks Buda (1986). Shkrime historike. Shtëpia Botuese "8 Nëntori". p. 52.