Description Johann Georg von Hahn - a nineteenth-Century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder of Albanian Studies as a scholarly discipline.
In this volume, Robert Elsie has translated Hahn\'s most important works relating to his travels.
Despite this acclaim, his work has not been widely available in English until now.
It was he who first studied the Balkan country and its people, and who brought them to the attention of the academic world.
Description Johann Georg von Hahn - a nineteenth-Century Austrian diplomat and explorer - is generally considered to be the founder of Albanian Studies as a scholarly discipline