Albanology
Albanology is the science that studies Albanian language, culture and History of Albania.
Albanology studies
Johann Erich Thunmann in the 18th century was probably the first Albanologist. He supported the theory of the autochthony of the Albanians[1] and also presented the Illyrian origin theory.[2][3] Later on Gustav Meyer proved that Albanian was part of the Indo-European family.[4]
In the 20th century such studies were deepened by Norbert Jokl, Milan Šufflay, and Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, as well as Karl Reinhold, and Eqrem Çabej.
The studies of Albanology were more institutionally supported in Albania starting in 1940 with the opening of the Royal Institute of the Albanian Studies, which had preceded the Academy of Sciences of Albania, opened in 1972. Meanwhile, during the 1960s, the Albanology Institute of Pristina was also reconstructed in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia.[5] The institute emerged from its core founded in 1953.[6]
Notable Albanologists
- Johann Erich Thunmann (1746–1778)
- Johann Georg von Hahn (1811–1869)
- Girolamo de Rada (1814–1903)
- Demetrio Camarda (1821–1882)
- Vinkentij Makušev (1837–1883)
- Gustav Meyer (1850–1900)
- Ludwig von Thallóczy (1854–1916)
- Theodor Ippen (1861–1935)
- Edith Durham (1863–1944)
- Carl Patsch (1865–1945)
- Nicolae Iorga (1871–1940)
- Gjergj Pekmezi (1872–1938)
- Norbert Jokl (1877–1942)
- Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877–1933)
- Milan von Šufflay (1879–1931)
- Marie Amelie von Godin (1882–1956)
- Maximilian Lambertz (1882–1963)
- Margaret Hasluck (1885–1948)
- Giuseppe Valentini (1900–1979)
- Carlo Tagliavini (1903–1982)
- Stuart Edward Mann (1905–1986)
- Eqrem Çabej (1908–1980)
- Namik Resuli (1908–1985)
- Georg Stadtmüller (1909–1985)
- Eric P. Hamp (born 1920)
- Shaban Demiraj (1920–2014)
- Martin Camaj (1925–1992)
- Aleksandar Stipčević (1930–2015)
- Wilfried Fiedler (born 1933)
- Xhevat Lloshi (born 1937)
- Peter Schubert (1938–2003; last ambassador from East Germany in Tirana)
- Robert Elsie (born 1950)
- Vladimir Orel (1952–2007)
- Michael Schmidt-Neke (born 1956)
- Marko Snoj (born 1959)
- Joachim Matzinger (born 1968)
- Lucia Nadin
- Matteo Mandalà
- Evelyn Noygues
See also
References
- ↑ Elsie, Robert (19 March 2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania. Scarecrow Press. p. 159. ISBN 978-0-8108-7380-3.
Johann Erich Thunmann (1746–1778) of the University of Halle first disseminated the theory of the autochthony of the Albanians
- ↑ Schwandner-Sievers, Stephanie; Fischer, Bernd Jürgen (2002). Albanian Identities: Myth and History. Indiana University Press. p. 75. ISBN 0-253-34189-2.
Although the first major exposition of the Illyrian theory, published by the German scholar Johann Thunmann in 1774...
- ↑ Stipčević, Aleksandar (1977). The Illyrians: history and culture. Noyes Press. p. 73. ISBN 978-0-8155-5052-5.
The first one who clearly formulated the thesis of the Illyrian origin of the Albanians, was the German historian Johannes Thunmann in the eighteenth century.
- ↑ Philip Baldi (1983). An Introduction to the Indo-European Languages. SIU Press. pp. 87–88. ISBN 978-0-8093-1091-3.
In fact, Albanian was not established definitively Indo-European until the latter part of the nineteenth century, when certain structural and lexical correspondences that demonstrated the Indo-European character of the language were noted (especially by Gustav Meyer)
- ↑ Spiro J. Shetuni (2011). Albanian Traditional Music: An Introduction, with Sheet Music and Lyrics for 48 Songs. McFarland. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-7864-8630-4.
In the 1960s, the Albanology Institute of Prishtinë was founded in Kosovo.
- ↑ Robert Elsie (15 November 2010). Historical Dictionary of Kosovo. Scarecrow Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-8108-7483-1.
The core of the present Albanological Institute was founded on 1 June 1953 with four staff members: Ilhami Nimani, Selman Riza,