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 Romanian and Aromanian . He is known for his fundamental contributions to the dialectology of the Romanian language and for studying the relationships between the languages on the Balkan Peninsula (→ Balkansprachbund ).
Weigand studied Romance studies at the University of Leipzig and wrote a dissertation on the language of the Aromanians in the region of Mount Olympus in 1888, followed by a habilitation thesis on the Megleno- Romanians in 1892. In 1893 he founded the Romanian Institute at the University of Leipzig, the first Such an institution outside Romania, followed a little later by the Institute for Bulgarian Language. In the following years he toured the Balkan Peninsula to conduct extensive personal field studies. In doing so he learned the regional languages. In 1908 he published a Linguistic Atlas of the Dacoruman language area , the first work of its kind in the field of Romance linguistics. In 1917 Weigand founded the interdisciplinary "Southeast Europe and Islam Institute" at the University of Leipzig.
During the First World War he was by the German authorities as part of the field research company "Macedonian National Committee," the Emperor Wilhelm II. , Was financed by Macedonia to lead sent to ethnographic studies. The results were published in 1923 under the title Ethnography of Macedonia .
In recognition of his research on 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 the Macedonian Scientific Institute . He died in Belgershain , Saxony .
Works
- (1888): The language of the Olympo-Wallachians . Dissertation, University of Leipzig.
- (1892): Vlacho-Meglen. An ethnographic-philological investigation . Leipzig.
- (1895): The Aromanians / Ethnographic-Philological-Historical Studies . Leipzig.
- (1907): Bulgarian grammar
- (1908): Linguistic Atlas of the Dacoruman Language Area . Leipzig: Barth.
- (1922): Spanish grammar for Latin schools, university courses and self-teaching
- (1913): Bulgarian-German dictionary
- (1913): Albanian grammar in the southern Gian dialect (Durazzo, Elbassan, Tirana). Ambrosius Verlag Leipzig.
- (1923): Ethnography of Macedonia . Leipzig.
- (1925): The Berglaute Lahuta e Macis Gjergj Fishta , Ed. Leipzig: Joh. Ambr. Barth, trans. u. ext. by Gustav Weigand.
literature
- Thede Kahl: Gustav Weigand in Greece - on the difficulties of a reception. In: Südost-Forschungen , Vol. 61/62 (2002/03), pp. 399-411.
- Helmut W. Schaller : Gustav Weigand and the national aspirations of the Balkan peoples . In: Language in the Slavia and on the Balkans , Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1993 (= Opera Slavica. New episode 25)
See also
Web links
- Literature by and about Gustav Weigand in the catalog of the German National Library
- Overview of Gustav Weigand's courses at the University of Leipzig (summer semester 1892 to summer semester 1914)
- Gustav Weigand in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
- Bernd Weisbrich: Gustav Weigand (1860–1930) . In: Institute for Saxon History and Folklore (Ed.): Saxon Biography .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weigand, Gustav |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German scientist, ethnographer, linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 1, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Duisburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 1930 |
| Place of death | Belgershain |