Georg Stadtmüller (

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, 17 March 1909 – Passau, 1 November 1985) was German

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and Albanologist.

Biography

He studied German

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, classic and oriental

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and

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in period 1927–1931. He was president of History department on

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, 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. 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. Stadtmüller founded the Albanian Institute in Munich, Germany, in 1963. Stadtmüller is the author of 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. (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.

Selected works

Michael Choniates, Metropolit von Athen. 1934 by Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum
* * Forschung zur albanischen Frühgeschichte, Budapest, 1942 * Die Islamisierung bei den Albanern * Geschichte Südosteuropas, München 1950 * * Das albanische Nationalkonzil vom Jahre 1703, Orientalia Christiana Periodica. XXII (1956),

(1942) *

References

External links

Short bio on web site of KosovA tek AlbEmigrant
1909 births 1985 deaths Albanologists 20th-century German historians German male non-fiction writers {{Germany-historian-stub