Johann Georg von Hahn

Johann Georg von Hahn ( born July 11, 1811 in Frankfurt am Main, † September 23, 1869 in Jena) was an Austrian diplomat and Albanologist.

Life

Hahn was the son of Philipp Franz Hahn (1770-1836), who was landgräflich - Hessian personal physician and Privy Council since 1814 and was knighted in 1823 at the Grand Duchy of Hesse. His brother was Friedrich von Hahn.

After attending high school in Mainz, he studied in Giessen and Heidelberg from 1828 to 1832 and received his doctorate in law. From 1834 he was in the Greek judicial service, he had to leave with the introduction of the constitution in 1843, the end of the autocracy Otto I.. He remained in Athens and he oversaw the Prussian consulate in Athens. In 1847 he came with the help of the Austrian Consul Baron Prokesch -east in Athens as vice consul in Janina. 1851 he was appointed consul at Syra and 1869 Consul General in Athens. He promoted the economic penetration of the Balkans by Austria - Hungary. He is regarded as the founder of Albania research. During his stay in Janina, he dealt with Albania. He collected on site material learned Albanian and dismissed the membership of Albanian to Indo-European language family to.

Works

• " Albanian Studies", Vol 1-3, Jena 1854, reprint Dion.Karavias, Athens 1981
• "Greek and Albanian fairy tale", Vol 1-2, Leipzig 1864, Munich / Berlin 1918
• " Travel from Belgrade to Salonika ", Vienna 1861 ( digitized version of the 2nd edition of 1868 from the collection of the Institute of East and Southeast European Studies )
• "Journey through the territories of the Drin and Vardar ", Vienna 1867 ( digitized version of Volume 1 from the collection of the Institute of East and Southeast European Studies )