He first studied in the Jesuit Saverian College of Shkodër and afterwards in the University of Belgrade.[2] Later Camaj worked as professor of Albanian at the Sapienza University of Rome, where he did postgraduate research and finished studies on linguistics in 1960. In 1957 he became the editor-in-chief of the Albanological journal Shejzat published in Rome. In 1961 he settled in Munich and first worked as a lector at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, while in 1964 he became a Privatdozent.[2] In 1970 he earned his professorship and until 1990 he was a professor of Albanology at the same university.