Albanology

The Albanian Studies is a regional science. It deals with language, culture and history of the Albanians and can thus be regarded as a branch of Balkanologie. As part of Albanian scientific methods of literature, linguistics, archeology, history and cultural studies are applied. The focus of the research was from the beginning and is today the Albanian language.

As a scientific discipline, the Albanologie established at the turn of the 19th to the 20th century. The scientific study of Albania as part of the Balkans customer has intensified in the last quarter of the 19th century; it published the first studies on the Albanian people and linguistics, some of which are until today of scientific value.

The first university in Albania in Tirana was founded in 1957 and it soon became an important center of Albanian, although humanities research subject to the ideological constraints of the Stalinist Hoxha regime. Something greater freedoms had the scientists at the University was founded in 1970 in the Yugoslav Prishtina. In collaboration of scientists in Prishtina and Tirana today's unified Albanian written language was codified into the 70 years of the 20th century.

Centers of research are now the University of the Albanian capital of Tirana and the University of Prishtina. The Centre for Studies Albanological plays a significant role in scientific research in this field a. Albanological studies but also in Italy ( Chairs: University of Naples and University of Palermo ), in Austria (Karl -Franzens- University of Graz) and in Germany ( Ludwig- Maximilians- University Munich, Germany) operated. On the basis of the German special collection system, the Bavarian State Library in Munich supervised the special collections Albanian language, literature and folklore. As part of this national task library, the library collects literature on the academic fields covered as comprehensively as possible, it provides interlibrary loan interested in all of Germany, and can handle as a consultancy professional issues.

Significant Albanologist

  • Johann Georg von Hahn (1811-1869)
  • Gustav Meyer (1850-1900)
  • Ludwig von Thallóczy (1854-1916)
  • Theodor Ippen (1861-1935)
  • Edith Durham (1863-1944)
  • Gjergj Pekmezi (1872-1938)
  • Norbert Jokl (1877-1942)
  • Franz Baron von Nopcsa (1877-1933)
  • Milan from Šufflay (1879-1931)
  • Marie Amelie Godin (1882-1956)
  • Maximilian Lambertz (1882-1963)
  • Carlo Tagliavini (1903-1982)
  • Stuart Edward Mann (1905-1986)
  • Eqrem Çabej (1908-1980)
  • Georg Müller City (1909-1985; founder and first director of the Albany Institute in Munich)
  • Martin Camaj (1925-1992)
  • Shaban Demiraj ( * 1920; linguist in Tirana, a member of the Albanian Academy of Sciences)
  • Wilfried Fiedler ( born 1933, author of the authoritative German - Albanian dictionary )
  • Kaplan Burovich ( b. 1934 )
  • Xhevat Lloshi ( * 1937; linguist in Tirana)
  • Peter Schubert (1938-2003; recently GDR ambassador in Tirana)
  • Oda Buchholz (1940-2014)
  • Robert Elsie ( born in 1950 )
  • Michael Schmidt- Neke ( b. 1956 )
  • Ardian Klosi (1957-2012)
  • Bardhyl Demiraj (* 1958)
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