Norbert Jokl was an Austrian Albanologist of Jewish descent who has been called the father of Albanology.
Norbert Jokl
2012 Stamp of Albania featuring Jokl
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.