A tribute to reverend Edwin Jacques - the new idol of albanian nationalists

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Edwin E. Jacques

The Reverend Edwin Everett Jacques had attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduated from Gordon College and Divinity School, and was awarded a Master of Arts Degree from Boston University. He also received an Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree from Denver Theological Seminary. A former Missionary to Albania and Italy, he pastored churches in East Concord, Groton, and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Prior to his retirement, he served the Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society for nearly 20 years, and, as its foreign secretary, travelled extensively in Europe and Asia. He is survived by his wife of 66 years, Dorothy, two sons, Edwin M. Jacques of Milton, Delaware, and Stanton E. Jacques of Concord, Massachusetts, a daughter Gloria Seidenberg of Epsom, New Hampshire, 13 grandchildren, and 13 great grandchildren.

He wrote a book on Albanian history called "The Albanians: An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present" .Nowhere Jacques is mentioned either as Historian, or having anything to do with history.Still he wrote a book on the Albanian history as he imagined it to be.He has become the current idol of Albanian nationalists around the globe.

His book was controversial as he exhibited extreme ignorance of history.In a chapter on Epirus he claims "Pyrrhus was traditionally associated with Butrint, but shortly thereafter Yanina became the capital of his kingdom"[1].Yannina was founded...in the 6th century AD by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I .However his childish 'argumentantion' and the far-fetched assumptions constitutes his entire book as a goldmine for Albanian nationalists inspite of his comical conclusions.

References

1. ^ "The Albanians: An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present" , page 79.Pyrrhus was traditionally associated with Butrint, but shortly thereafter Yanina became the capital of his kingdom

Sources

* "The Albanians: An Ethnic History from Prehistoric Times to the Present",by Edwin E. Jacques,ISBN-10: 0899509320