Georg Stadtmüller Explained

Georg Stadtmüller
Birth Date:	17 March 1909
Birth Place:	Bürstadt, Hessen
Death Place:	Passau^[1]
Main Interests:	German history, classic and oriental philology and Albanology

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

Biography

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.^[3] 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.^[4] Stadtmüller founded the Albanian Institute in Munich, Germany, in 1963.^[5] 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.^[6]

Selected works

• Michael Choniates, Metropolit von Athen. 1934 by Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum
• Book: Georg Stadtmüller. Pontificium Institutum Orientalium Studiorum. Ya'Itopyā 'ortodoks tawāhedo béta kerestiyān . Jacob (of Serug) . Sebastian Euringer . De Oriente: documenta, studia et libri .... 1934. Pont. Institutum Orientalium Studiorum.
• Forschung zur albanischen Frühgeschichte, Budapest, 1942
• Die Islamisierung bei den Albanern
• Geschichte Südosteuropas, München 1950
• Georg Stadtmüller -->. Altheidnischer Volksglaube und Christianisierung in Albanien. 1954. Pont. Inst. Orientalium Stud..
• Das albanische Nationalkonzil vom Jahre 1703, Orientalia Christiana Periodica. XXII (1956),
• Research in Early Albanian History (1942)
• Georg Stadtmüller -->. Saeculum. 1974. Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar. 0080-5319.

External links

• Short bio on Munzinger web site
• Die Islamisierung bei den Albanern
• Short bio on web site of KosovA tek AlbEmigrant

Notes and References

1. Book: Robert Elsie. Robert Elsie. Historical Dictionary of Albania. 27 September 2013. 2010. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-8108-6188-6. 429.
2. Book: Eurobalkans. 27 September 2013. 1994. Eurobalkans. 21. A distinguished German Albanologist, Georg Stadtmuller.
3. Book: Robert Elsie. Robert Elsie. Historical Dictionary of Albania. 27 September 2013. 2010. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-0-8108-6188-6. 429. 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. .
4. Book: Dennis Dennis Charles Washburn. A. Kevin Reinhart. Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology, and Transformations of Modernity. 30 September 2013. 2007. BRILL. 978-90-04-15822-1. 429. 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.
5. Book: Ilirjani. Altin. Elbasani. Arolda. Peshkopia. Ridvan. Albanian Journal of Politics. 2006. Globic Press. 118. 9780977666263 . In 1963 Stadtmüller established the "Albanien- Institut" in Munich. .
6. Book: Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts: LLBA. . October 2007 . Sociological Abstracts, Incorporated . 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.