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Life

He finished gymnasium in "Zosimea" Greek language school in Ioannina. There, he came in touch with west philosophy and studied languages like Greek, French and Italian. With the help of a personal teacher, he also learned Arabic, Turkish and Persian.

In 1872 he migrated to Istanbul where he worked in governmental press bureau. His lifetime goal, as that of many other members of Albanian renaissance, was the development and improvement of Albania's culture and independence of the country.

Along with his elder brother Abdyl, Hasan Tahsini, Pashko Vasa and Jani Vreto, he founded the Central Committee for the Protection of National Albanian Rights. Early in the 1879, this committee prefermented a commission for Albanian alphabet. Also, the Society for the Publication of Albanian Writings was founded and headed by Sami Frashëri, where Albanian scholastic books and texts were compiled by him and his brother Naim.

He died in June 18, 1904 after a severe illness at his home in Erenköy, Istanbul.

Dictionaries and Encyclopedical Works

• Kamûs-ı Fransevî (1882-1905, French-Turkish dictionary)

• Kamûs-ı Fransevî (1885, French-Turkish dictionary)

• Küçük Kamûs-ı Fransevî (1886, French-Turkish dictionary)
• Citaj vnimatelno

• Kamûs-ül Â'lâm (6 volumes, 1889-1898, Encyclopedia of General Science, known to be the first Encyclopedia printed in Turkish)

• Kamûs-ı 'Arabî (1898, Arabic-Turkish dictionary, unfinished)
• Kamus-ı Türki (2 volumes, dictionary of the Classical Ottoman Turkish language, still widely used as a reference as of today, 1899-1900, reprints and facsimiles in 1978 and 1998)