Elmas Boçe (1852 – 10 October 1925) was an

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educator and a signatory of the

Albanian Declaration of Independence The Albanian Declaration of Independence ( Albanian: ''Deklarata e Pavarësisë'') was the declaration of independence of Albania from the Ottoman Empire. Independent Albania was proclaimed in Vlorë on 28 November 1912. Six days later the Assem ...

Life

Born in

Gjirokastër Gjirokastër (, sq-definite, Gjirokastra) is a city in the Republic of Albania and the seat of Gjirokastër County and Gjirokastër Municipality. It is located in a valley between the Gjerë mountains and the Drino, at 300 metres above sea le ...

in 1852 he studied in

Zosimea The ''Zosimaia'' School ( el, Ζωσιμαία Σχολή, ''Zosimaía Scholí'') of Ioannina (in Epirus) has been one of the most significant Greek middle-level educational institutions (high schools) during the last period of Ottoman rule in th ...

and later in

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, capital of the

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. A member of the Gjirokastër branch of the

League of Prizren The League of Prizren ( sq, Besëlidhja e Prizrenit), officially the League for the Defense of the Rights of the Albanian Nation ( sq, Lidhja për mbrojtjen e të drejtave te kombit Shqiptar), was an Albanian political organization which was offi ...

, he also funded one of the Albanian-language schools of the city ''Lirija''. In 1911 he took part in the Assembly of Cepo and in 1912 was signatory of the Albanian Declaration of Independence. He died on October 10, 1925 and rests in the village of Metan in Lushnjë.

References

*''History of Albanian People''. Albanian Academy of Science. 19th-century Albanian educators 20th-century Albanian educators 1852 births 1925 deaths Signatories of the Albanian Declaration of Independence People from Gjirokastër People from Janina vilayet Zosimaia School alumni Albanian educators All-Albanian Congress delegates {{Albania-bio-stub