In Tirana, Mirash Ivanaj, activist, leader and reformer organizer of national education, Teacher of the People, passed away. He was born in the village of Bekaj, in Triesh of the Great Highlands, in 1891. He attended the high school in Pozharevac (Serbia) and continued his studies in literature-philosophy and law at the Royal University of Rome. He first worked in Shkodër as a publicist and lawyer. Then as a teacher and director of the State High School of Shkodra, teacher in the High School of Tirana and Minister of Education (1933-1935). At the head of the Ministry of Education, he started and led the educational reform of 1933, through which he nationalized and secularized Albanian schools; supplemented the texts and improved the teaching programs; repaired the school premises and strengthened the discipline in the school, etc. He was a member and chairman of the State Council (1936-1939), but after the fascist occupation of Albania, he emigrated to Turkey. After the liberation, he returned to his homeland, where the communist regime sentenced him to 7 years in prison. Died after six years, in prison. He was decorated with the “Honour of the Nation” order (2003). (In the photo: Mirash Ivanaj)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1055.
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