Partner Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás
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Bajazid Elmaz Doda (1888–1933) was an
Albanian
ethnographic writer and photographer. Close companion of Hungarian baron and
scholar
Franz Nopcsa, he is author of the book Albanisches Bauerleben im oberen
Rekatal bei Dibra (Makedonien) (Albanian Peasant Life in the Upper Reka Valley
near Dibra (Macedonia)), written in Vienna in 1914, as well as of numerous
rare early-20th-century photos of Albanian-inhabited lands during the period
when they belonged to the
Ottoman Empire, especially of
Upper
Reka, his birthplace region.
Bajazid Doda was born in 1888 in Štirovica, an Albanian-inhabited village
of the
Upper Reka region of Macedonia in what was then the Ottoman Empire. He
went to
Romania to work abroad, like many other Upper Reka inhabitants.[1]
In
Bucharest, Romania, in 1906 he met the Hungarian baron and scholar
Franz Nopcsa (1877–1933), who hired him as his servant.[1]
The two became close companions and began to live together.[1]
Nopsca and Doda left Bucharest for the Nopcsa family mansion in
Săcel,
Transylvania, and thereafter spent some several months in
London where
Doda fell ill with influenza.[1]
In mid-November 1907 the two traveled to
Shkodër,
where they maintained a house from 1907 to 1910 and again from October 1913.[1]
They travelled around
Mirditë
and were kidnapped by a famous bandit Mustafa Lita.[1]
After their release in
Prizren,
they travelled to
Skopje and
went to visit the home of Doda in Upper Reka.[1]
Back in Shkodër, they went and visited the lands of tribes
Hoti
and
Gruda.[1]
Both traveled together and separately throughout the Albanian lands.[1]
During the First World War in 1915-1916, Nopcsa took Doda with him while
serving in the Austro-Hungarian army in Kosovo.[1]
After the war, they lived mainly in
Vienna where
Nopcsa published several books and became known not only as an
albanologist, but also as a
paleontologist and
geologist.[1]
On April 25, 1933, suffering from
depression Nopcsa killed Doda in his sleep and then committed
suicide.[1]
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