Andrea Bogdani

1600–1683) was an Ottoman scholar of Albanian origin and prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

Andrea Bogdani was born at the beginning of the 17th century, in Gur i Hasit, near Prizren, Ottoman Empire (modern-day Kosovo).

[5] His nephew Petro Bogdano, one of the best-known writers of early Albanian literature succeeded him as Archbishop of Skopje in 1677.

Andrea Bogdano has become known for writing the first Latin-Albanian grammar book,[6] now lost.

[8] He considered Orthodox Serbs as enemies of Catholics and wrote that the Orthodox Serbs in Kosovo, while also being protected by the Ottomans, were trying to extract money from the Catholics.