Pajazit Nushi
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Pajazit Nushi (January 8, 1933 – September 2, 2015) was a Kosovan university professor, psychologist and scientific and social-political worker. He was a member of the Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts.[1][2]
Pajazit Nushi was born on January 8, 1933, in Gjakova.[1] He completed primary school and normal school in his hometown. He continued his studies at the, Department of Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, which he completed on September 28, 1955.[2] In 1955, he completed the state exam for professor of psychology and educational (pedagogical) psychology. He crowned his higher studies on June 8, 1983, when he defended his doctoral dissertation thesis entitled, "Development of psychological terminology and the semantic basis of its definition in the Albanian language" (Albanian: Zhvillimi i terminologjisë psikologjike dhe baza semantike e përcaktimit të saj në gjuhën shqipe)[3] at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Pristina. Furthermore, he worked as a professor of psychology and logic at the Gjakova Gymnasium and a professor of psychology subjects at the Normal School in Prizren and at the Normal School in Pristina. In 1963, he was elected director of the Organization for the Advancement of Schools of the Autonomous Province of Kosovo.[2]
In September 1964, he was accepted as a professor of psychology subjects at the Higher Pedagogical School of Pristina and from 1974 a lecturer, then docent, associate professor and ordinary professor of general psychology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Pristina. In the meantime, he exercised various administrative and political duties at the level of the municipality, the district, Kosovo and the former – Yugoslav Federation, in which the task was mainly concerned with the organization of the educational system, scientific work and cultural and artistic creativity. From 1982, he worked at the Miroslav Krleža Institute of Lexicography in Zagreb, in the Kosovo Editorial Office, where he was the editor of the Encyclopedia of Yugoslavia of the Albanian language edition. On September 31, 1991, due to political reasons, he was forced to retire early, but continued his educational and scientific work at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Pristina]. In 2000, he was elected a corresponding member of Kosova Academy of Sciences and Arts – ASAK. On November 25, 2008, he was elected a regular member of ASAK. For a period of time, he was vice-president of the All-Albanian Association of Psychologists and president of the Council for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms (Albanian: Këshilli për Mbrojtjen e të Drejtave dhe Lirive të Njeriut) based in Pristina.[1]
Professor Pajazit Nushi died on September 2, 2015, in Pristina.
