{"id":7827,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/gjergj-canco\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:48","slug":"gjergj-canco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/gjergj-canco\/","title":{"rendered":"Gjergj Canco"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Gjergj <\/span>Canco<\/span>, a leader and organizer of professional educa<\/span>t<\/span>ion, <\/span>T<\/span>eacher of <\/span>t<\/span>he People, and Hero of Socialis<\/span>t<\/span> Work, passed away. He was born in <\/span>Bobosh<\/span>t<\/span>ica<\/span>, <\/span>Korça<\/span>, in 1906 and gradua<\/span>t<\/span>ed from <\/span>t<\/span>he Na<\/span>t<\/span>ional Lyceum (French) in his home<\/span>t<\/span>own. <\/span>Canco<\/span> con<\/span>t<\/span>inued his higher s<\/span>t<\/span>udies in F<\/span>ran<\/span>c<\/span>e a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he Universi<\/span>t<\/span>y of Mon<\/span>t<\/span>pellier (1927–1930) and a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he School of Public Works (Ecole des <\/span>T<\/span>ravaux Publics) from 1930 <\/span>t<\/span>o 1932. He worked as a ma<\/span>t<\/span>hema<\/span>t<\/span>ics <\/span>t<\/span>eacher a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he high school in <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a in 1932, <\/span>t<\/span>he <\/span>T<\/span>echnical School of <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a in 1933, and <\/span>t<\/span>he high school in Shkodra from 1936 <\/span>t<\/span>o 1945. For abou<\/span>t<\/span> a quar<\/span>t<\/span>er<\/span> of a cen<\/span>t<\/span>ury, from 1945 <\/span>t<\/span>o 1967, he served as a <\/span>t<\/span>eacher and direc<\/span>t<\/span>or a<\/span>t<\/span> t<\/span>he <\/span>former poly<\/span>t<\/span>echnic “7 <\/span>Nën<\/span>t<\/span>ori<\/span>” in <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, <\/span>t<\/span>ran<\/span>sforming i<\/span>t<\/span> in<\/span>t<\/span>o a model professional school and <\/span>t<\/span>raining cen<\/span>t<\/span>er for <\/span>t<\/span>eachers and specialis<\/span>t<\/span>s. He played a significan<\/span>t<\/span> role in <\/span>es<\/span>t<\/span>abl<\/span>ishing<\/span> a ne<\/span>t<\/span>work of professional schools across <\/span>t<\/span>he coun<\/span>t<\/span>ry, including <\/span>t<\/span>he <\/span>T<\/span>echnical School of Cons<\/span>t<\/span>ruc<\/span>t<\/span>ion in <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, <\/span>t<\/span>he <\/span>T<\/span>echnical School of Mining and Geology in <\/span>Përrenjas<\/span>, <\/span>t<\/span>he <\/span>T<\/span>echnical School of Agricul<\/span>t<\/span>ural Mechanics in Durrës, <\/span>t<\/span>he Indus<\/span>t<\/span>rial School <\/span>in Shkodër, and <\/span>t<\/span>he Agricul<\/span>t<\/span>ural School in Korçë. <\/span><\/span>(In <\/em><\/span>t<\/span>he pho<\/span>t<\/span>o: Gjergj <\/span>Canco<\/span><\/em>)<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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T<\/span>ex<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>:<\/span><\/span> Albanian encyclopedic dic<\/span>t<\/span>ionary – Vol. <\/span>1 <\/span><\/span>,<\/span> Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kris<\/span>t<\/span>alina-KH”, <\/span>T<\/span>i<\/span>ran<\/span>a, 2008, page 355-356.<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Pho<\/span>t<\/span><\/strong>o<\/strong>: <\/span><\/span>© Cen<\/span>t<\/span>ral S<\/span>t<\/span>a<\/span>t<\/span>e Archives<\/span><\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gjergj Canco, a leader and organizer of vocational education, a People’s Teacher, and a Hero of Socialist Labor, passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11396,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7827\/revisions\/11396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}