Refo Çapari

Refo Çapari (1884-1944) was an Albanian politician and religious leader. Çapari was the first prefect of the Vlorë County and the first biographer of Ismail Qemali. He is considered to be the introducer of the BaháÊ¼í Faith in Albania.
Life
A member of the Çapari family he was born in modern northwestern Greece (Çamëria). In the late 1900s he graduated from the law school of Istanbul. After the Albanian Declaration of Independence Çapari became the first prefect of the Vlorë County. During World War I Refo Çapari migrated to the USA, where he converted to the BaháÊ¼í Faith in 1928.
In a letter to the Guardian dated 19 August 1933, Refo Çapari announced the publication in Albanian of J.E. Esslemont's book “Bahá’u’lláh and the New Era”. Dr. Howard Carpenter visited Refo Çapari in Tirana in 1932.
In May 1933, Martha Root visited Albania for the second time. On that occasion, Root met Refo Çapari, who was now married to Fiqrije Çapari, mother of two daughters from a previous marriage, namely Myrvet and Muveddat.
In 1938 he started publishing in Korçë and Tiranë the BaháÊ¼í journal The supreme plume ().<ref name="Elsie2001"/>
Refo Çapari passed away in Korçë in 1944.

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