Education
Born in Shkodër on 9 March 1864, Nikaj was educated in the Albanian Pontifical Seminary and ordained as a priest in 1888.
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Born in Shkodër on 9 March 1864, Nikaj was educated in the Albanian Pontifical Seminary and ordained as a priest in 1888.
He was the first Albanian novelist to write and publish an original novel in the Albanian language, Shkodra e rrethueme (English: Shkodra under siege) of 1905. Along with Preng Doçi he was the creator of the Lidhja e Mshehët (English: The Secret League), which aimed at overthrowing the Ottoman Empire and the creation of an independent Albania. Such league inspired the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
Nikaj established in 1909 his own printing press, "Shtypshkronja Nikaj" (English: Nikaj Press) and also founded two newspapers: Koha (English: The Time) in 1910 and Besa Shqyptare (English: The Albanian Pledge) in 1913.
Besa Shqyptare lasted until 1921. The cultural and literary magazine Hylli i Dritës was printed there.
Nikaj is remembered for the two history collections of 1902, "History of Albania" and "History of Turkey" which pushed toward the consolidation of the Catholic identity between Albanians, focusing on Scanderbeg and his wars against the Ottomans. His work was criticized as inexact and tendentious by the Austrian diplomat and historian Theodore Ippen.
Nikaj was arrested in 1921 for unknown reasons, and little is known about him until the end of World World War World War II He was arrested by the communists in 1946 and died in prison in 1951.
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