Urani Rumbo was an Albanian feminist, teacher, and playwright.
13 Facts About Urani Rumbo
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Urani Rumbo founded various associations promoting Albanian women's rights, the most important of which was the Lidhja e Gruas, one of the first prominent feminist organizations of Albania.
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Urani Rumbo was born in December 1895 in Stegopul, a village near Gjirokaster in what is today southern Albania.
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Urani Rumbo's father, Spiro Rumbo, was a teacher in the nearby villages and her mother, Athana, was a housewife.
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Urani Rumbo had three brothers, Kornil, Thanas, and Dhimiter Rumbo, and a sister Emily as well a teacher at the elementary school.
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Urani Rumbo received elementary education and completed six grades at the school of Filiates, where her father worked as a teacher.
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Urani Rumbo knew how to write in Albanian and Greek fluently and from the age of fifteen she began teaching Albanian literature.
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From 1910 Rumbo attended a high school in Ioannina, but her education was interrupted by the Balkan wars.
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Urani Rumbo wrote and directed theater plays and organized school theater performances to encourage girls to participate in public life.
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In 1923 Urani Rumbo began a campaign along with other women for the right of girls to attend the lyceum of Gjirokaster as boys did.
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On July 25,1924, Urani Rumbo founded the feminist organization Permiresimi "Improvement".
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Urani Rumbo responded with an article in the newspaper Demokratia denouncing the accusations as absurd.
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On March 1,1961, Urani Rumbo was posthumously awarded the Mesuese e Popullit medal.