{"id":6387,"date":"2023-09-14T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-14T10:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/2023\/09\/14\/ndoc-nikaj\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:50:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:50:50","slug":"ndoc-nikaj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/2023\/09\/14\/ndoc-nikaj\/","title":{"rendered":"Ndoc Nikaj"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The writer, journalist, publisher, and cleric, Ndoc Nikaj, passed away in Burrel prison. He was born in Shkod\u00ebr, where he graduated from the Jesuit college (1888) and worked as a parish priest in his hometown and in the surrounding area. In the years 1910-1921, he published the newspapers <i>&#8220;Koha&#8221; (\u201cThe Time\u201d), &#8220;Bashkimi&#8221; (\u201cThe Union\u201d)<\/i> and &#8220;Besa Shqyptare&#8221; one after the other. After the liberation, he was imprisoned for political reasons. He made a name especially as a prose writer; is among the initiators of the novel in Albanian literature. He published the novels <i>&#8220;Shkodra e rrethueme&#8221;(\u201cThe surrounded Shkodra\u201d)<\/i> (I, 1913; II, 1914), &#8220;Bukurusha&#8221; (1918), &#8220;Burbuqja&#8221; (1920), as well as the drama &#8220;Sister for Brother&#8221; (1924). In Ndoc Nikaj&#8217;s historical novels, the patriotic theme is combined with love stories. The novel &#8220;Burbuqja&#8221; deals with social issues, as well as the fate of the individual in the face of wild patriarchal morality and social injustices. In 1902, he published two historical works &#8220;History of Albania&#8221; and &#8220;History of Turkey&#8221;, which were used as school textbooks. In 1909, he founded the &#8220;Nikaj&#8221; printing house, the first in Shkodra. He was arrested in 1946, at the age of 82. <i>(In the photo: Ndoc Nikaj)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 3,<\/i> Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 1843.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/sq.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ndoc_Nikaj<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The writer, journalist, publisher, and cleric Ndoc Nikaj passed away in Burrel prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":183,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6387"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8581,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6387\/revisions\/8581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}