Gustav Weigand

Gustav Weigand ( born February 1, 1860 in Duisburg, † July 8, 1930 in Belgershain ) was a German linguist and specialist in Balkan languages, especially Rumanian and Aromanian language for the. He is known for his seminal contributions to the dialectology of the Romanian language and to study the relationships between the languages ​​of the Balkan Peninsula (→ Balkans Sprachbund ).

Weigand was born in Duisburg Germany. He studied Romance languages ​​in Leipzig and wrote a thesis on the language of the Vlachs in the region of Mount Olympus in 1888, followed by a post-doctoral thesis on the Meglenorumänen in 1892. In 1893 he founded the Romanian Institute at the University of Leipzig, the first of its kind outside Romania, a little later followed the Institute for Bulgarian Language. In the following years he toured the Balkan Peninsula to conduct extensive personal field studies. He learned the regional languages. In 1908 he published a Linguistic Atlas of dacorumänischen language area, the first work of its kind in the field of Roman linguistics. In 1917, Weigand, the interdisciplinary "South East Europe and Islam Institute " at the University of Leipzig.

During the First World War he was sent by the German authorities in the field research company " Macedonian National Committee ," which was funded by Kaiser Wilhelm II, to Macedonia to lead ethnographic studies. The results Ethnography of Macedonia were published in 1923 under the title.

In recognition of his research in the Romanian language Gustav Weigand was elected as a foreign member of the Romanian Academy in 1892. He was also a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and of the Macedonian Scientific Institute. He died in Belgershain, Saxony.

Works

  • (1888 ): The language of Olympo - Vlachs. Dissertation, University of Leipzig.
  • (1892 ): Vlacho - Meglen. An ethnographic and philological investigation. Leipzig.
  • (1895 ): The Aromanians / Ethnographic Philological and Historical Studies. Leipzig.
  • (1907 ): Bulgarian grammar
  • (1908 ): Linguistic Atlas of dacorumänischen language area. Leipzig: Barth.
  • (1922 ): Spanish Grammar for Latin schools, university courses and for self-instruction
  • (1913 ): Bulgarian - German dictionary
  • (1913 ): Albanian grammar in südgegischen dialect ( Durazzo, Elbasan, Tirana). Ambrose Verlag Leipzig.
  • (1923 ): Ethnography of Macedonia. Leipzig.
  • (1925 ): The mountain sounds Lahuta e mace Gjergj Fishta, ed Leipzig: John Ambr. Barth, trans. and explained. by Gustav Weigand.
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