Georg Stadtmüller

Who is Georg Stadtmüller?

Georg Stadtmüller was German historian and Albanologist.

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. Stadtmüller and Stavro Skendi supported controversial assertion about crypto-religious groups existing in the Balkans in all places where population converted to Islam.