On March 25, 1880, diplomat, scholar, and bibliophile Mithat Frashëri was born in Janina. He was the son of national activist Abdyl bey Frashëri. After his father’s death, his uncles Naim and Sami Frashëri oversaw his education.

Mithat became a leading scholar of his era. He contributed to historiography through publications like Diturija (1909) and Kalendari Kombiar (1897–1928), which documented history, folklore, and language.

In politics, he played a key role at the Congress of Monastir in 1909, chairing the Alphabet Commission, and later signed the Declaration of Independence at the Vlora Assembly in 1912. He served in ministerial posts and diplomatic missions, notably in Greece, defending the rights of the Cham population. He also founded the Lumo Skëndo bookstore in Tirana, active from 1926 to 1939.

During the fascist occupation, he led the National Front organization. After World War II, he left Albania due to the communist takeover, living in Italy and then London, where he founded the “Free Albania” Committee in 1949. He passed away in New York on October 3, 1949.

In 2018, his remains returned to Albania and were reburied with state honors near the Frashëri brothers’ memorial in Tirana’s Artificial Lake Park.