Macedonian educator (1923 - 1993)
Nikola Berovski (Macedonian: Никола Беровски, 1923–1993) was a Macedonian educator and translator whose entire career was spent among the Macedonians in Albania. His Macedonian-Albanian dictionary contained over 10,000 words.[1]
Life
Born in Bitola, Berovski was among the Macedonian teachers sent to Albania following World War II.[2] His dictionary as well as his textbook in Macedonian for first grade and a grammar book for fourth-grade Macedonian were published in Tirana. After the Tito-Stalin Split in 1948, Berovski was one of two Macedonian teachers who remained in Albania, both having started families.[3][2] The other teacher, Gjorgji Mileski, remained until 1957, while Berovski remained in Albania for the rest of his life.[4]
Berovski worked with and was a friend of writer Sterjo Spasse.[5] In commemoration of 90 years since his birth in 2013, 500 copies of his dictionary were printed by the Macedonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and distributed among Macedonians in Albania.[1]
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