{"id":8390,"date":"2026-05-09T00:09:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/tahir-dizdari-2\/---aa74c892-05bd-4fe1-a6fb-0c9561b175fc"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:09:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:09:33","slug":"tahir-dizdari-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/tahir-dizdari-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tahir Dizdari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">In Tirana, Tahir Dizdari, a prominent philologist and orientalist, passed away. He was born in Shkod&euml;r, in 1900. He completed his higher studies in political science at Istanbul University in Turkey from 1922 to 1925. During the years 1925-1939 he served in the higher state administration and was active as a publicist, critic and polemicist in various newspapers of the time. During the fascist occupation, for his nationalist views, he was exiled to Italy from 1939&ndash;1942. He was arrested on February 27, 1951, and held for 13 months in detention in connection with the so-called &#8220;bomb in the Soviet Embassy&#8221;, but was released due to lack of evidence. He was evicted from&nbsp; his private house. In these conditions, he was forced to sleep in his bookstore, which he had opened in 1952. In 1965, he was &#8220;accepted&#8221; as an associate of the Institute of Linguistics, the sector of lexicology and lexicography. In 1995, the President of the Republic awarded him the Order &#8220;Naim Frash&euml;ri&#8221; of the first class, with the motivation &#8220;For the outstanding contribution to the development of Albanian sciences&#8221;. 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