The National History Museum commemorated today, on the 8th anniversary of his death, the prominent historian, professor and academician Kristo Frashëri.

Kristo Frashëri was born in Istanbul on December 4, 1920. In 1927, he returned to homeland 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 exiled by the fascist occupation administration, while in 1943 he joined the partisan resistance ranks.

During the period 1945-1952 he worked at the Bank of Albania. He attended higher studies at the Faculty of History and Philology, at the Higher Pedagogical Institute, during the years 1951-1955. While from 1953 to 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 the Tirana State University and in 1997 he was appointed vice president of the Academy of Sciences of Albania, where he remained until 1999.

Kristo Frashëri has produced a rich scientific output, which extends to all periods of Albania’s history, from Antiquity to the present day. He has 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. Among them are the trials to illuminate the Albanian haze during the early Middle Ages, the medieval feudal order in the Albanian provinces, the medieval state formations, the features of the Ottoman feudal rule in Albania, the Albanian National Renaissance, the liberation war of Vlora of 1920, the life and activity of Abdyl Frashëri, Sami Frasherit etc.

After 1990, he published a number of scientific works, such as: “The League of Prizren 1878-1881” (Tirana, 1997); “George Kastrioti Skanderbeg, Life and Deeds” (Tirana, 2002); “The History of Tirana” (Tirana, 2004); “History of the left movement in Albania” (Tirana, 2006); “Skanderbeg in the Albanian documentary sources of the 15th century” (Tirana, 2005); “National Identity of Albanians” (Tirana, 2006); “Albanian historiography in transition” (Tirana, 2006); “Proclamation of independence of Albania, November 28, 1912” (Tirana, 2008); “History of Albanian Civilization” (Tirana, 2008).

Kristo Frashëri, as a professor of the history of Albania at the University of Tirana and as a scientific worker, has also given a special contribution to the preparation of young historians too. He passed away on January 31, 2016.

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