Luigj Gurakuqi
Source: National Archives & Historic Records of Albania
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Luigj Gurakuqi 🇦🇱

Luigj Gurakuqi (Known as "Hero of the People")
Patriot, Linguist, Poet, Minister of Education, Co-signer of Vlora Declaration
Born 1879-02-19 🇦🇱 Shkodër, Albania
Passed Away 1925-03-02 Bari, Italy
Lifespan 46 years old
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"Education is the sacred hearth from which the light of freedom illuminates our motherland."

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Prominent statesman, linguist, and educator who co-drafted the 1912 Declaration of Independence, founded the Normal School of Elbasan, and served as Minister of Education and Finance.

Biographical Record

Luigj Gurakuqi was born on February 19, 1879, in Shkodër into a merchant family. Educated at the Jesuit College in Shkodër and the University of Naples Federico II under Italo-Albanian poet Girolamo De Rada, he emerged as a leading intellectual of the National Awakening.

Gurakuqi was vice-president of the 1908 Congress of Monastir and founder of the Normal School (Shkolla Normale) of Elbasan in 1909, the nation's premier teacher-training academy. Standing alongside Ismail Qemali in Vlorë in 1912, he was a primary author and signatory of the Declaration of Independence. Serving as Minister of Finance in Fan Noli's democratic government of 1924, he was murdered in Bari, Italy, by a hired assassin in 1925.

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Final Resting Place

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Rrmaj Cemetery
Shkodër, Albania
GPS: 42.0683, 19.5125
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