Gustav Weigand

Weigand was born in Duisburg, in the Rhine Province of Prussia. He studied Romance languages in Leipzig and wrote a doctoral thesis about the language of the Aromanians in Livadi in the region of Mount Olympus in 1888, followed by a habilitation thesis on the Megleno-Romanian language in 1892. In 1893 he founded the Romanian Institute at the University of Leipzig, the first such institution outside Romania. During the following years he continued to conduct extensive personal field studies in the Balkans. In 1908, he published a ''Linguistic Atlas of the Daco-Romanian speech area'' (), the first work of its kind in the field of Romance linguistics. During the First World War, he was sent by Imperial German authorities to conduct ethnographic studies in Macedonia, then under German occupation. The results were published in 1923.
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 of the Macedonian Scientific Institute. He died in Belgershain. Provided by Wikipedia
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