Pandeli Sotiri (1842–1892) was a teacher that acted as director of the first Albanian school of modern times in Korçë.

Sotiri was born in 1843 in the village of Selckë in the Lunxhëri region, Janina Vilayet of Ottoman Empire (now Pogon municipality, Gjirokastër District, Albania) .

However Sotiri had to issue a new permit and to change the name of the magazine into Dituria (meaning "knowledge" in English).

[4][5] In early 1887 Sotiri was issued the permit to open the first Albanian school of modern times in Korçë.

[2] Sotiri died in 1892 allegedly killed by Greek Orthodox fanatics who threw him from the third floor of his apartment in Thessaloniki, Greece,[citation needed] with his wife and father-in-law being the organizers.