{"id":7987,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/1970\/01\/01\/mirash-ivanaj-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:53:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:02","slug":"mirash-ivanaj-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albheritage.wpadmin.ch\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/mirash-ivanaj-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mirash Ivanaj"},"content":{"rendered":"
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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 <\/span>Bekaj<\/span>, in <\/span>Triesh<\/span> of the Great Highlands, in 1891. He attended the high school in <\/span>Pozharevac<\/span> (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 <\/span>High School<\/span> of Shkodra, teacher in the <\/span>High School<\/span> 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<\/span> 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 <\/span>chairman<\/span> of the State Council (1936-1939), but after the fascist occupation of Albania, he emigrated to <\/span>Turkey<\/span>. 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). <\/span><\/span>(In the photo: Mirash Ivanaj)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Text<\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. <\/span>2 <\/span><\/span>,<\/span> Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 1055.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Photo<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© <\/span><\/span>https:\/\/ivanaj-foundations.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/13\/martin-and-mirash-ivanaj\/#iLightbox[gallery-1]\/1<\/span>2<\/span><\/span><\/a> <\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Graphic processing<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>AHCF<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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