Enver Hoxha
The University of Tirana was founded in 1957 as the "State University of Tirana" (), through the merging of five existing institutes of higher education, the most important of which was the Institute of Sciences, founded in 1947. Immediately after the death of Enver Hoxha in 1985, the university was renamed the "Enver Hoxha University of Tirana" () until 1992.