Pjetër Mazreku

Pjetër Mazreku (1584– 27 November 1634 ) (, ) was an Albanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He wrote documents on the state of Christians in the Ottoman Empire, and a short 33 word Albanian etymological dictionary, preserved as a manuscript.

Life Mazreku was born in Prizren, most likely in the village of Mazrek, into an Albanian family from the Mazreku tribe, which spoke in the Gheg dialect of Albanian. He served as the Archbishop of Bar from 1624 to 1634, while in 1631 he became the apostolic visitor of Hungary, Serbia and Slavonia. In 1634 he was ordained as the apostolic administrator of Serbia. Until his death around 1638 he served as Bishop of Prizren.

Mazreku knew many languages, and wrote an etymological dictionary of the Albanian language.

Annotations His name was spelt in Latin and Italian as Mazzaretus, Massarechio, Maserecho, Masarecho, Masserecco, Massarecius, etc. In Albanian, his name is spelt Pjetër Mazreku.