Albanology

Within the studies the scientific methods of literature, linguistics, archeology, history and culture are used.

[2][3] Later on Gustav Meyer proved that the Albanian language was part of the Indo-European family.

[4] In the 20th century such studies were deepened by Norbert Jokl, Milan Šufflay, and Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás, as well as Karl Reinhold, and Eqrem Çabej.

The studies of Albanology were more institutionally supported in Albania starting in 1940 with the opening of the Royal Institute of the Albanian Studies, which had preceded the Academy of Sciences of Albania, opened in 1972.

Meanwhile, during the 1960s, the Albanology Institute of Pristina was also reconstructed in Kosovo, then part of Yugoslavia.

Albanian folk dance from Civita , Calabria , Italy
Austrian Theodor Ippen in Shkodër with traditional costume. (1900)
Robert Elsie was the foremost scholar of Albanian studies in the early 21st century.
The famous Hungarian paleontologist Baron Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás in Albanian uniform.