Andon Zako Çajupi

Andon Zako Çajupi (27 March 1866 – 11 July 1930) was an Albanian lawyer, playwright, poet and rilindas.

Çajupi's father, Harito Zako, was a tobacco merchant, with a business extending throughout the then-Ottoman Empire and also into Italy and other parts of western Europe.

During his time in Alexandria, Çajupi met several western European lawyers representing businesses in Egypt.

Çajupi's financial support and professional expertise were both required in his role promoting Albanian independence.

[2] In 1902, Çajupi published in Cairo an anthology, Baba-Tomorri ("Father Tomorr"), named after the Albanian mythological character.

Çajupi also wrote plays and novels, with his work on Skanderbeg entitled Burr' i dheut ("The earthly hero") being published in 1907.

Agim Shehu, a well known Albanian writer, has recreated in a short story the memory of Çajupi's love for the Swiss young girl Eugenie, who later would become his wife.

Zako on a 1950 stamp of Albania