Pandeli Sotiri (1842–1892) (original surname: Sotiriadis or Σωτηριάδης in greek) was a teacher that acted as director of the first Albanian school of modern times in Korçë. Sotiri was one of the most important Rilindas figures that contributed in the propagation of the Albanian language. He also worked on one of the versions of the Albanian alphabet. The Congress of Monastir based Albanian's alphabet mostly on Sotiri's precedent work.
In 1884 he took over the publishing of the first magazine entirely written in Albanian, the magazine Drita, which had first been published by Petro Poga. However Sotiri had to issue a new permit and to change the name of the magazine into Dituria (meaning "knowledge" in English).[4][5]
In early 1887 Sotiri was issued the permit to open the first Albanian school of modern times in Korçë. On March 7, 1887 the school (Albanian: Mësonjëtorja) opened in the building offered by the Terpo brothers, an Albanian patriotic family.[citation needed]
He had married a Greek woman, the niece of an archbishop of the Greek Orthodox Church and had to leave the city for Greece that same year.[2] As a result, the Mësonjëtorja was left in the hands of Thanas Sina and Petro Nini Luarasi.[2]
Sotiri died in 1892 allegedly killed by Greek Orthodox fanatics who threw him from the third floor of his apartment in Thessaloniki, Greece,[citation needed] with his wife and father-in-law being the organizers.[6]
Notes and referencesedit
^Özdalga, Elisabeth (2005). Late Ottoman society: the intellectual legacy. RoutledgeCourzon. pp. 264, 267. ISBN978-0415665445. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
^ abcSkendi, Stavro (1967). The Albanian national awakening. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 134–135. ISBN9781400847761.
^Elsie, Robert (2005). Albanian literature: a short history. IB Tauris. pp. 75–76. ISBN1-84511-031-5. Retrieved 2010-06-18.
^Kondo, Ahmet (1970). "Studime Historike (Historical Studies)". Studime Historike (in Albanian). 7. State University of Tirana, Institute of History and Philosophy (Universiteti Shtetëror i Tiranës, Instituti i Historisë dhe Filozofisë): 144–146. Retrieved 2013-08-29.
^Nuçi Naçi (1927-03-01), [Albanian school in Korce] (PDF), Diturija, Tirana: Librarija Lumo Skendo: 167, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-16, E kishin flakur nga penxheret e shtëpisë ku rinte, tre katësh; thonë se këtë vdekje të tmeruarë j'a pregatiti e shoqja edhe vjehri.
January 01, 1970
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