Robert Elsie

Writer, translator, interpreter, specialist in Albanian studies

Curriculum vitae

Robert Elsie was born in 1950 in Vancouver, Canada. He studied at the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1972 with a diploma in Classical Studies and Linguistics. In the following years, he continued his post-graduate studies at the Free University of Berlin, at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes and at the University of Paris IV in Paris, at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in Ireland, and at the University of Bonn, where he finished his doctorate (Dr. Phil.) in 1978 at the Linguistics Institute. From 1978 on, he was able to visit Albania several times with a group of students and professors from the University of Bonn, visits which first awakened in him an interest for the culture of the tiny and, at the time, exotic Balkan country. For several years in a row, he also attended the International Seminar on Albanian Language, Literature and Culture, held in Prishtina (Kosova). From 1982 to 1987, he worked for the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Bonn. Since that time he has worked as a freelance conference interpreter, primarily for Albanian and German. Robert Elsie is the author of numerous books and articles, in particular on various aspects of Albanian culture and affairs. He lives in the Eifel mountains of Germany, not far from the Belgian border.

 

 

 

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