The Most Famous
HISTORIANS from Albania
This page contains a list of the greatest Albanian Historians. The pantheon dataset contains 339 Historians, 1 of which were born in Albania. This makes Albania the birth place of the 41st most number of Historians behind Kazakhstan and Ukraine.
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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Albanian Historians of all time. This list of famous Albanian Historians is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Marin Barleti (1450 - 1513)
With an HPI of 54.76, Marin Barleti is the most famous Albanian Historian. His biography has been translated into 25 different languages on wikipedia.
Marin Barleti (Latin: Marinus Barletius, Italian: Marino Barlezio; c. 1450–1460 – c. 1512-1513) was a historian, humanist and Catholic priest from Shkodër. He is considered the first Albanian historian because of his 1504 eyewitness account of the 1478 siege of Shkodra. Barleti is better known for his second work, a biography on Skanderbeg, translated into many languages in the 16th to the 20th centuries.
Pantheon has 1 people classified as historians born between 1450 and 1450. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased historians include Marin Barleti.
