Midhat Frashëri

Midhat Frashëri ( born March 25, 1880 in Janina, † October 3, 1949 in New York) was an Albanian writer and politician.

Life

Midhat Frashëri was the son of Abdyl Frashëri. He spent his youth in Istanbul and worked in the Turkish administration later. Under the pseudonyms Lumo Skendo and Mali Kokojka He published articles in Albanian newspapers. Through its support of the policy of the Young Turks, with whom he was practically against the country's independence, earned him criticism from his countrymen. After the country gained independence in 1912 he was still, as in the first post-war Albanian governments, owner of several ministerial posts, he also represented Albania from 1922 to 1926 as an envoy in the U.S. and Greece.

After his return he no longer took the time being politically in appearance. He ran a bookstore in Tirana. He toyed with the idea to build a Albanologisches Institute, which should include his private library, but they never put into action. It was not until 1942 he joined again in appearance, when he founded the Balli Kombëtar, a national resistance organization, as well as the Albanian National Liberation Front, which was led by the Communist Party of Albania, rebelled against the Nazi occupiers. Frashëri but could not compete with the Communist Party with his resistance group. He went out into exile in the United States, where he died in 1949.