mid'hat frashëri was a man of short stature with a speech impediment. he was a beloved leader and also a bibliophile. his library, one of the finest in the balkans, became the basis for the albanian national library. frashëri's entire library of some 20,000 volumes, the largest in albania at that time, was confiscated by the new regime. the library included significant albanological works inherited from franz nopcsa von felsö-szilvás.