Pertef Pogoni, also known as Ibrahim Pertev, was a 20th-century Albanian politician.[1]
Born in GjirokastërinJanina Vilayet, Ottoman Empire (modern day Albania) in 1888, his father was Hoca-zade, Mehmed Avni, chief-qadiinThessaloniki.[1] He studied at the rüstive of Gjirokastër, at the idadi of Manastir and at the Mekteb-i Mülkiye in Istanbul. He underwent his administrative training in Thessaloniki and Istanbul between 1908 and 1910.[1] Pogoni had studied in the Pedagogical Institute in France until 1912 and in 1927 he became General secretary of the Ministry of Public Education in Albania.[1] In 1928 he elaborated the law on the organization of the education.[1] In 1939 he was Minister of Education in the Albanian government under Italy and a member of the Council of State.[1] He had two sons with his wife Hafsa Lamlika; they were Durim Pogoni and Bardhyl Pogoni, born in Tirana.[2][3][better source needed] He could speak, read and write in Turkish, French, Albanian, and Greek.[1]
