Author · Albania
Fan Noli
Died in 1965
Theofan Stilian Noli was born in 1882 in İbriktepe, in Ottoman Thrace, into an Orthodox Albanian family, and emigrated to the United States in 1906. Ordained a priest in 1908, he founded an independent Albanian Orthodox Church and in 1922 became Bishop of Korça. A Harvard graduate in 1912, he became Prime Minister and regent in 1924; overthrown at the end of the year, he went into exile. Settled in the United States, he completed a doctorate on Skanderbeg in Boston in 1945 and translated Shakespeare and Ibsen. He died in Florida in 1965.