PËRQASJE KRIJIMTARISË GOJORE SHQIPTARE TË BOTUAR NGA TJETRI
APPROACH TO ALBANIAN ORAL CREATIVITY PUBLISHED BY OTHERS

Summary/Abstract: Traditional Albanian culture became an object of ethno-folklore research for many travellers, missionaries, scholars, writers, anthropologists, and various consuls serving in the Balkans during the 19th century. The published writings of these missionaries and personalities of foreign cultures on the history of Albanian culture at that time, either in English, German or French, became the basis for the beginning of the rise of Albanian studies, not only of linguistical and historical aspect, but also of the traditional culture. This paper will address the contribution of two foreign albanologists, that of the German medical doctor and philologist Karl Heinrich Theodor Reinhold with the publication "Noctes pelasgicae" published in 1855, in Athens, and that of the French consul Auguste Dozon, with the publication "Manuel de la Langue Chkipe ou Albanaise" published in 1879, in Paris. The purpose of bringing these two albanological publications back into focus of consideration is that, in addition to having in the first place a common analysis in the philological aspect, specifically of the southern dialect of Albanian language, at the same time they also contain empirical materials of the traditional culture, from which we try to distinguish some of those oral creations containing substantial values for the Albanian folkloristics, as well as what is the consideration given to these creations from the point of view of the other, even though sometimes seem to be hasty in the conclusions they draw on the basis of a limited empirical material, especially for the given time and space where those folklore units had been gathered.

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