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Ndoc Nikaj (15 June 1864 – 16 January 1951) was an Albanian priest, writer, and historian. He was the first Albanian novelist to write and publish an original novel in the Albanian language, Script error: No such module "Lang". (Template:Langx) of 1905.
Biography
Born in Shkodër on 15 June 1864, Nikaj was educated in the Albanian Pontifical Seminary and ordained as a priest in 1888. Along with Preng Doçi he was the creator of the Lidhja e Mshehët (Template:Langx), which aimed at overthrowing the Ottoman Empire and the creation of an independent Albania. Such league inspired the Albanian Revolt of 1910.[1][2] Nikaj was one of the founders of the literary society Society for the Unity of the Albanian Language, mostly known in Albanian as Shoqnia Bashkimi.
Nikaj established in 1909 his own printing press, "Shtypshkronja Nikaj" (Template:Langx) and also founded two newspapers: Koha (Template:Langx) in 1910 and Besa Shqyptare (Template:Langx) in 1913. Besa Shqyptare lasted until 1921.[2] The cultural and literary magazine Hylli i Dritës was printed there.[1]
Nikaj is remembered for the two history collections of 1902, "History of Albania" and "History of Turkey" which pushed toward the consolidation of the Catholic identity between Albanians, focusing on Scanderbeg and his wars against the Ottomans. His work was criticized as inexact and tendentious by the Austrian diplomat and historian Theodore Ippen.[3]
Nikaj was arrested in 1921 for unknown reasons, and little is known about him until the end of World War II. He was arrested by the communists in 1946 and died in prison in 1951.[1][4]
Nonliterary publications
Nikaj's educational, religious and other publications are the following:[1]
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Literary publications
Nikaj wrote prose most of which is now rare to be found:
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- Script error: No such module "Lang". (Template:Langx) (Shkodër 1905)
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References
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- ^ a b c d Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Robert Elsie (2005). Albanian Literature: A Short History. I.B.Tauris. pp. 88–89. ISBN 978-1-84511-031-4. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hamdi Bushati (1998), Shkodra dhe motet, vol. 1 (1 ed.), Idromeno, pp. 584–585, ISBN 9780826487889, OCLC 41096394
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Nathalie Clayer (2006), Aux origines du nationalisme albanais : La naissance d'une nation majoritairement musulmane en Europe, Karthala, p. 525, ISBN 978-2845868168
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Harold B. Segel (2012), The Walls Behind the Curtain: East European Prison Literature, 1945-1990, University of PittsburghPress, p. 17, ISBN 9780822962021
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