Rexhep Mitrovica
Rexhep Mitrovica | |
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Minister of Education | |
In office 24 December 1921 – 25 February 1924 | |
Preceded by | Aleksandër Xhuvani |
Succeeded by | Fahri Rashiti |
Personal details | |
Born | 15 January 1888 Kosovo Vilayet, Ottoman Empire |
Died | 21 May 1967 Istanbul, Turkey | (aged 79)
Political party | Balli Kombëtar |
Children | 3 |
Occupation | Teacher |
Awards | Order of Freedom (Kosovo)[2] |
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Rexhep Mitrovica (15 January 1888 – 21 May 1967) was a Prime Minister of
Biography
Early life
Rexhep was born to a wealthy land-owning family from Mitroviça, in the Ottoman Empire. He studied in Usküb and Istanbul.[4] He was one of the leaders of the Kosovo uprising of 1912, together with Isa Boletini and Hasan Prishtina. Also in 1912, he took part in the declaration of Albanian independence as the representative of Peja.[5] From 1921 to 1923, he served as Albanian minister of education.
By 1921,
After the fall of the government of
He returned to Albania after the Italian invasion and joined the Balli Kombëtar resistance movement in 1942. He spent much of the Italian period in prison in Porto Romano near Durrës.[4]
Prime minister
After the
In his first address to the National Assembly, Mitrovica noted that four and a half years of
With control over Kosovo and the creation of an
On 18 July 1944 Rexhep Mitrovica resigned due to illness.
Exile and death
During the communist takeover in November 1944, though he was ill with tuberculosis, he managed to escape to Croatia with Xhafer Deva and Rexhep Krasniqi, and in December of that year carried on over the mountains to Austria to reach Vienna. With Deva’s assistance, the ailing Mitrovica spent time in a sanatorium in Feldkirch in western Austria.[4] In 1947, he accompanied Deva and Krasniqi to Genoa where, with the help of a Turkish diplomat of Albanian origin, he was able to immigrate to Turkey. He died at the German hospital in Istanbul as head of the Albanian community in exile.[4][5]
His grandson, Redjep Mitrovitsa is an actor of Comédie-Française.
Sources
- Owen Pearson, Albania and King Zog: Independence, republic and monarchy 1908-1939, London, Tauris, 2004, ISBN 1-84511-013-7.
- Owen Pearson, Albania in occupation and war: From fascism to communism, 1940-1945, London, Tauris, 2005, ISBN 1-84511-014-5.
References
- ^ Rexhep Mitrovica, burrështetasi që u la nën harresë
- ^ "President Jahjaga Awarded Honours to a Number of Distinguished Personalities".
- ^ ISBN 9781557531414. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
- ^ )
- ^ ISBN 9780810853096. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
- ^ a b c Robert Elsie. "Rexhep Mitrovica and Bedri Pejani: A Kosovar Protest". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
- ISBN 9781576079409. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
- ^ a b Seton-Watson, Hugh (1951). The East European Revolution. Retrieved 24 August 2011.
See also
- History of Albania
- List of prime ministers of Albania