Gaqo Adhamidhi

Gaqo Adhamidhi or Adamidi (1859–1939), also referred to as Adhamidh Frashëri,[1] was an Albanian physician and political figure during the early 20th century.[2]

Gaqo Adhamidhi
Born
Gaqo Adhamidhi

1859
Korçë, Ottoman Albania
Died1939
OccupationPhysician
Known forAlbanian representative in the League of Nations
"Dr. Adhamuti" personage

Life

Adhamidhi was born in Korçë, back then Ottoman Empire, today's Albania.[2] Like most of the members of the Orthodox community there he emigrated at a young age. He settled in Egypt, where he studied medicine and became a physician. Adamidi was a close friend of the physician and politician Mihal Turtulli, another prominent member from the ranks of the Albanian community of Egypt.[3]

Adhamidhi served during 1892–1914 as personal doctor of Abbas II of Egypt, the last khedive of Egypt and Sudan from the dynasty of Muhammad Ali. During his time in Egypt, Adhamidi attempted and failed to establish cooperation between the Albanian community residing there with the one based in Romania.[4] In 1914, following the events of the Albanian Declaration of Independence and the newly created Albanian state, Adhamidhi returned to Albania where he served as Minister of Finance in the cabinet of 1914 (resigned on 20 May 1914) headed by Turhan Pasha Përmeti, the first government of the Principality of Albania.[5] With the outbreak of World War I he settled in Switzerland,[5] associating with the University of Lausanne. He stayed many years in Switzerland, becoming chairman of the "Albanian National Council" there, a political society of the Albanian diaspora in Geneva. He also represented Albania in the League of Nations.[2]

As a personage

It is accepted that the Albanian poet and playwright Andon Çako, better known as Andon Zako Çajupi, one of the prominent activists of the Albanian National Awakening, based his comic personage "Dr. Adhamuti" of his comedy Klubi i Selanikut (Thessaloniki's Club) based on George Adhamidhi.[2] The reason was personal vendetta from a Zako's matchmaking gone bad, for which he might have accused Adhamidhi. Inside Zako's satirical story, Dr. Adhamudhi is described as a grotesque, penny-pinching, ignorant, pro-Ottoman, pseudo-physician.[3]

References
  1. Herbert, Aubrey (10 May 2011), Albania's greatest friend : Aubrey Herbert and the making of modern Albania : diaries and papers, 1904-1923, London;New York: I.B. Tauris, p. 218, ISBN 9781848854444
  2. Elsie, Robert (2012), A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History, London; New York: I.B.Tauris, pp. 4–5, ISBN 9781780764313
  3. Ben Andoni (14 December 2011), Si e denigroi Çajupi Adhamidhin [How Çajupi denigrated Adamidi] (in Albanian), Gazeta Shqiptare, archived from the original on 16 March 2016, retrieved 29 October 2015
  4. Skendi, Stavro (1967). The Albanian national awakening. Princeton: Princeton University Press. p. 152. ISBN 9781400847761.
  5. Brahim Avdyli (12 May 2011), Bazat e mërgatës shqiptare në Zvicër [Basis of the Albanian emigre in Switzerland] (in Albanian), AlbaniaPress
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