Georg Stadtmüller (Bürstadt, Hessen, 17 March 1909 – Passau, 1 November 1985) was German historian[2] and Albanologist.[3]
Georg Stadtmüller | |
|---|---|
| Born | 17 March 1909 |
| Died | 1 November 1985 (aged 76) |
| Academic work | |
| Main interests | German history, classic and oriental philology and Albanology |
Biography
editHe studied German history, classic and oriental philology and history in Freiburg in period 1927–1931. He was president of History department on Munich University, specialist for history of European Orient and history of Albanians. In his 1942 work he published the controversial thesis in which he traced the origin of Albanians back to the region of Mat.[4] Stadtmüller and later Stavro Skendi supported the controversial assertion about crypto-religious groups existing in the Balkans in all places where the population converted to Islam.[5] Stadtmüller founded the Albanian Institute in Munich, Germany, in 1963.[6] Stadtmüller is the author of the hypothesis that Mat valley was summer pasturage for early Albanians. According to this hypothesis Albanian language does not have loan words for flora and fauna found above 900m because this valley is situated in more than 1,000 m altitude and surrounded by mountains, admitting that flora and fauna found in lower ranges have loanwords originating in Slavic languages.[7]
Selected works
edit- Michael Choniates, Metropolit von Athen. 1934 by Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum
- Georg Stadtmüller; Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum; Ya'Itopyā 'ortodoks tawāhedo béta kerestiyān; Jacob (of Serug); Sebastian Euringer (1934). De Oriente: documenta, studia et libri ... Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum.
- Forschung zur albanischen Frühgeschichte, Budapest, 1942
- Die Islamisierung bei den Albanern
- Geschichte Südosteuropas, Munich, 1950
- Altheidnischer Volksglaube und Christianisierung in Albanien. Pont. Inst. Orientalium Stud. 1954.
- Das albanische Nationalkonzil vom Jahre 1703, Orientalia Christiana Periodica. XXII (1956),
- Research in Early Albanian History (1942)
- Saeculum. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. 1974. ISSN 0080-5319.
References
edit- ^ Robert Elsie (2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
- ^ Elsie, Robert (2004), Historical dictionary of Albania, Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, p. 429, ISBN 978-0-8108-4872-6, OCLC 52347600
- ^ Eurobalkans. Eurobalkans. 1994. p. 21. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
A distinguished German Albanologist, Georg Stadtmuller
- ^ Robert Elsie (2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
The thesis, republished in 1966, traces the origins of the Albanian people back to the Mat region and provides much thought-provoking material for the thorny issue of Albanian ethnogenesis.
- ^ Dennis Dennis Charles Washburn; A. Kevin Reinhart (2007). Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology, and Transformations of Modernity. BRILL. p. 429. ISBN 978-90-04-15822-1. Retrieved 30 September 2013.
Two historians of the Balkans, Georg Stadtmüller and Stavro Skendi, have even gone so far as to claim that one would have been able to find crypto-religious groups everywhere in the Balkans where conversion to Islam took place
- ^ Ilirjani, Altin; Elbasani, Arolda; Peshkopia, Ridvan (2006). Albanian Journal of Politics. Globic Press. p. 118. ISBN 9780977666263.
In 1963 Stadtmüller established the "Albanien- Institut" in Munich.
- ^ Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA. Sociological Abstracts, Incorporated. October 2007. p. 1517. (1) Stadtmuller's (1966) hypothesis that the mountains surrounding the Mat valley, with 1000-2000 m elevation, provided the summer pasturage of the early Albanians, whose lexicon is free of borrowings for the flora & fauna found above 900 m & admits Slavic loanwords in the 600-900 m range.
External links
edit- Short bio on Munzinger web site
- Die Islamisierung bei den Albanern Archived 2011-09-10 at the Wayback Machine (in Albanian)
- Short bio on web site of KosovA tek AlbEmigrant
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