National History Museum commemorates today the 7th anniversary of the death of the prominent Albanian historian, professor, academic Kristo Frashëri.

Kristo Frashëri was born in Istanbul on December 4, 1920. In 1927, he repatriated with his family and settled in Tirana. After finishing high school in 1940, he enrolled in the Faculty of Economic Sciences at the University of Florence. During 1942 he was interned by the fascist occupation administration and in 1943 he joined the partisan resistance.

During the period 1945-1952 he worked at the Albanian State Bank. He attended higher studies at the Faculty of History and Philology, at the Higher Pedagogical Institute, in the years 1951-1955. During the years 1953-1999 he worked in several important institutions, where he served as a scientific employee in the Institute of Sciences, in the Institute of History and Linguistics, in the Faculty of History and Philology of Tirana University and in 1997 he was appointed vice president of the Academy of Sciences of Albania, where he stayed until 1999.

Kristo Frashëri had a rich scientific output, which extends to all periods of Albania’s history, from Antiquity to the present day. He published dozens of study articles, historical reports, documentary volumes and scientific monographs, which without exception deal with events, personalities and processes of the history of Albania.

Kristo Frashëri, as a professor of the history of Albania at the University of Tirana and as a scientific worker, provided special contribution to the preparation of young historians.

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