Milan Šufflay was a Croatian historian and politician. He was one of the founders of Albanology and the author of the first Croatian science fiction novel. As a Croatian nationalist, he was persecuted in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, and his murder subsequently caused an internationally publicized affair.
Milan Šufflay
Šufflay on a 2013 stamp of Albania
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 the scientific methods of literature, linguistics, archeology, history and culture are used. However the Albanian language is the main point of research of 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.