Jakup Mato


Prof.Dr.Jakup Halil Mato was an Albanian publicist and educational administrator.
He started publishing his articles and research studies in the field of literature and arts since the beginning of the 1960s. In the 1990s he served as head of Centre of Art Studies of the Academy of Sciences of Albania.

Biography

After attending the former French Lyceum in Gjirokastra, Mato was a teacher and principal in the southern Albanian village of Kuç near Vlora. In 1959 he graduated from the University of Tirana.
Until the 1970s, he worked first at the Pedagogical Institute and then as a head of department head in the Ministry of Culture and Education. Mato was then editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Mësuesi" and was involved in the artistic field.
Among other things, Jakup Mato was director of the Art Academy in Tirana Instituti i Lartë i Arteve, today the University of Arts Tirana.
Twice, from 1991 till 1993 and 1997 from 1998 was he director of the Arts Research Center at the Albanian Academy of Sciences. For many years Mato was a lecturer at the University of Tirana and at the Academy of Arts in the subject of aesthetics. He was also Commissioner of the Encyclopaedia of Albanian Arts.

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