Well-known professor Osman Kraja, a prominent personality of higher education in Albania, has passed away at the age of 92.
The news was announced by the University of Tirana, through an announcement on social networks. The University highlights the contributions that Kraja has given over the years, as he has also been the Rector of the University of Tirana and Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.
Osman Kraja also dealt with diplomacy, where in 1997-2002 he was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Albania to Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine.
Post of the University of Tirana:
Extinguished Prof. Osman Kraja, a personality with very important contributions to higher education.
Prof. Osman Kraja, was Rector of the University of Tirana (1981 - 1988), Dean of FSHN (1974 - 1980), Ambassador of Albania to Poland.
An outstanding teacher of the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of the University of Tirana.
Prof. Osman Kraja was one of the founders of higher education in Albania. He worked with passion, dedication and professionalism.
He contributed a lot to the development of the Faculty of Natural Sciences and to the establishment of the authority of the university professor, as a teacher and as a researcher.
Educated and educated with dozens of generations of teachers and other professionals.
The University of Tirana lost one of its most precious figures.
Prof. Osman Kraja will remain an inspirational model for the university world.
The Rectorate, on behalf of all professors of the University of Tirana, expresses its condolences to his family, relatives and colleagues.