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Albanology, also known asAlbanian studies, is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses thelanguage,costume,literature,art,culture andhistory ofAlbanians. Within the studies the scientific methods of literature, linguistics, archeology, history and culture are used. However theAlbanian language is the main point of research of the studies.
Johann Erich Thunmann in the 18th century was probably the first Albanologist. He supported the theory of the autochthony of theAlbanians[1] and also presented theIllyrian origin theory.[2][3] Later onGustav Meyer proved that the Albanian language was part of theIndo-European family.[4]
In the 20th century such studies were deepened byNorbert Jokl,Milan Šufflay, andFranz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, as well asKarl Reinhold, andEqrem Çabej.
The studies of Albanology were more institutionally supported in Albania starting in 1940 with the opening of theRoyal Institute of the Albanian Studies, which had preceded theAcademy of Sciences of Albania, opened in 1972. Meanwhile, during the 1960s, theAlbanology Institute of Pristina was also reconstructed inKosovo, then part ofYugoslavia.[5] The institute emerged from its core founded in 1953.[6]
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Johann Erich Thunmann (1746–1778) of the University of Halle first disseminated the theory of the autochthony of the Albanians
Although the first major exposition of the Illyrian theory, published by the German scholar Johann Thunmann in 1774...
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.
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)
In the 1960s, the Albanology Institute of Prishtinë was founded in Kosovo.
The core of the present Albanological Institute was founded on 1 June 1953 with four staff members: Ilhami Nimani, Selman Riza,
