Aleksandër Xhuvani

Aleksandër Xhuvani (14 March 1880 – 22 November 1961) was an Albanian philologist and educator.

[1] Xhuvani spent much of his career working for the improvement of Albanian schools; he also advocated the standardization of the Albanian language in the years following Albania's independence.

Aleksandër Xhuvani was born on March 14, 1880, in Elbasan, then Ottoman Empire.

[2] In 1902 he began his studies at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Athens and graduated in 1906.

In August of the same year he was invited by Luigj Gurakuqi to teach in Albanian at the Arbëreshë College of San Demetrio Corone in the province of Cosenza, Italy.