Midhat Frashëri
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Midhat Frashëri (born March 25, 1880 in Janina , † October 3, 1949 in New York ) was an Albanian publicist and politician .
Life
Midhat Frashëri was the son of Abdyl Frashëri . He spent his youth in Istanbul and later worked in the Turkish administration. He published articles in Albanian newspapers under the pseudonyms Lumo Skendo and Mali Kokojka . His support for the policies of the Young Turks , with which he was practically against independence for the country, brought him criticism from his countrymen.
After the country gained independence in 1912, as in the first Albanian post-war governments, he held several ministerial offices, and he also represented Albania from 1922 to 1926 as envoy to the USA and Greece .
After his return, he did not appear politically for the time being. He ran a bookshop in Tirana . He toyed with the idea of building an Albanological Institute that would include his private library, but never put it into practice.
He only reappeared in 1942 when he founded the Balli Kombëtar , a national resistance organization which, like the Albanian National Liberation Front, which was led by the Communist Party of Albania , rebelled against the Nazi occupiers. Frashëri could not assert himself with his resistance group against the Communist Party. He then went into exile in the United States, where he died in 1949.
On November 14, 2018, his body was transferred to Tirana and buried with military honors in the presence of Prime Minister Edi Rama .
literature
- K. Lange: Frashëri, Midhat . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 1. Munich 1974, pp. 538-540
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ WWII Albanian Nationalist Leader Reburied with Honors , Gjergj Erebara, Balkan Insight, November 15, 2018
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Frashëri, Midhat |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Albanian writer, publicist and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1880 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Janina |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 1949 |
| Place of death | new York |