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Albanology, also known as Albanian studies, is an interdisciplinary branch of the humanities that addresses the language, costume, literature, art, culture and history of Albanians. Within the studies
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.
Baron Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás was a Hungarian aristocrat, adventurer, scholar, geologist, paleontologist and albanologist. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of paleobiology, and firs
Albanology
…that the Albanian language was part of the Indo-European family. 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…
The Nopcsa family home
Historical Polacanthus foxii skeletal restoration by Franz Nopcsa
Vertebra of Nopcsaspondylus, a sauropod dinosaur named after the baron in 2007. Other extinct animals named after him include Elopteryx nopcsai, Tethysaurus nopcsai, Hyposaurus nopcsai, and Mesophis nopcsai