Gjergj Fishta

Gjergj Fishta was born on 23 October 1871 in Fishtë, in the Zadrima. A pupil of the Franciscan schools of Troshan and Shkodra, he was sent at fifteen to the seminaries of Bosnia and became a priest in 1894. In 1899 he co-founded the Bashkimi society, in 1908 chaired the committee of the Monastir congress that chose the alphabet, and in 1913 founded a Franciscan journal. Secretary general of the Albanian delegation in Paris in 1919, he was elected deputy for Shkodra in 1921 and vice-president of parliament. He died on 30 December 1940; the communist regime subsequently banned his works.

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• EpicThe Highland LuteLahuta e MalcísGjergj Fishta · 1937LiteraturePublic domain