Jak Mark Suma

Jak Mark Suma (known in Italian as Giacomo Suma) was an Albanian diplomat. He was the vice consul of Venice and then Austria and a dragoman between them and the Ottoman Empire. He was the last vice consul of Venice in Shkodra in the 600-year presence of the maritime republic in the city.^[1] He was the son of Kolë Suma, one the first native doctors in the region. He came from a branch of the Albanian Suma family, a notable urban family of Shkodra since the Middle Ages.^[2] In 1778, Mahmud Pasha proposed to elect Suma as the vice consul of Shkodër.^[3] In his time as vice-consul of Venice he faced the increasing competition by the trade of Dulcigno to Venetian interests in Shkodër.^[4] Suma was personally responsible for transportation of products from Shkodër to Venice and would travel with the cargo to oversee the journey.^[5]

Jak Mark Suma
Born	Shkodër
Died	Shkodër
Nationality	Albanian
Citizenship	Venetian
Education	dragoman
Occupation(s)	vice-consul and dragoman
Years active	c. 1760-1796
Employer(s)	Venice and Austria
Known for	Being the vice-consul of Austria and Venice
Family	Kolë Suma Heqimi

HIs father was named Mark Jak Summa and he was a merchant.^[6] He also had two siblings, Andrean and Kolë Mark Summen who was a Doctor of Bushatlli.^[6]