Thanas Floqi

Thanas Floqi (14 January 1884 – 8 February 1945) was an Albanian educator and patriot, and one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence.Entstehung und Ausbau der Königsdiktatur in Albanien (1912-1939): Regierungsbildungen, Herrschaftsweise und Machteliten in einem jungen Balkanstaat, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 1987. p.24,

He was born in Korçë, at the time in the Ottoman Empire in 1884. He was the son of Vasil Floqi, a merchant. Thanas was the younger brother of Albanian patriot, politician, and writer Kristo Floqi.

Thanas Floqi finished his early education in his home town, then went to Messolongi, where he finished high school. After that he went to Athens to study law, but did not graduate and returned home. He emigrated later to US, where he got in touch with patriotic movements of the Albanian diaspora. He was a contributor in the establishment of " Malli i Mëmëdheut" (Homeland's yearning) which a few years later would become one of the sources for " Vatra Federation". His brother Kristo would become one of the Vatra founders. Thanas would return to Albania in 1912, and settle in Vlorë, where he contributes in the expansion of Albanian education. He also focused in arts and music studies. Floqi opened the first Albanian school in Cakran, near Fier.

Thanas Floqi was one of the signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence on November 28, 1912. After that, he worked in the newly created Albanian administration, and as an interpreter for the International Commission of Control, and as first secretary of the Ministry of Justice. In 1913, he settled in Elbasan, where he cooperated with Aqif Pashë Elbasani and worked as a teacher in the Shkolla Normale e Elbasanit. He distinguished himself in musical activities' organizations.

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*"History of Albanian People" Albanian Academy of Science.

1884 births
1945 deaths
People from Korçë
People from Manastir vilayet
Albanians in the Ottoman Empire
Expatriates from the Ottoman Empire in Greece
Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to the United States
Signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence
All-Albanian Congress delegates
20th-century Albanian educators
19th-century Albanian educators
Albanian educators
Academics of the University of Elbasan

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