In Tirana, on February 18th, 1965, died the teacher and researcher Sotir Angjeli, Albanian scientific personality in the field of botany. He was born in Ongren, Përmet. He finished the National School of Korca and graduated in botany at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Montpelier in France. He was among the firsts that gave lectures at the Institute of Pedagogy and after 1957 at the First Albanian University that opened in Tirana. He is known as a researcher and the first experimenter of aromatic plants first cultivated in Albania.
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