Georg Stadtmüller

Georg Stadtmüller
Born (1909-03-17)March 17, 1909
Bürstadt, Hessen
Died November 1, 1985(1985-11-01) (aged 76)
Passau[1]
Residence Germany
Academic work
Main interests German history, classic and oriental philology and Albanology

Georg Stadtmüller (Bürstadt, Hessen, March 17, 1909 - Passau, November 1, 1985) was German historian[2] and Albanologist.[3]

He 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 Stavro Skendi supported controversial assertion about crypto-religious groups existing in the Balkans in all places where population converted to Islam.[5]

Selected works

References

  1. ↑ Robert Elsie (2010). Historical Dictionary of Albania. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 429. ISBN 978-0-8108-6188-6. Retrieved 27 September 2013.
  2. ↑ Elsie, Robert (2004), Historical dictionary of Albania, Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, p. 429, ISBN 978-0-8108-4872-6, OCLC 52347600
  3. ↑ Eurobalkans. Eurobalkans. 1994. p. 21. Retrieved 27 September 2013. A distinguished German Albanologist, Georg Stadtmuller
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. ↑ 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 Ànd crypto-religious groups everywhere in the Balkans where conversion to Islam took place


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