Pericle Papahagi, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Pericle Papahagi

Romanian philologist

Date of Birth: 20-Oct-1872

Date of Death: 20-Jan-1943

Profession: philologist, literary historian

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Pericle Papahagi

  • Pericle Papahagi (1872 – January 20, 1943) was an Ottoman-born Romanian literary historian and folklorist. He was born into an Aromanian family in Avdella, a village that formed part of the Ottoman Empire's Manastir Vilayet and is now in Greece.
  • After attending school in his native village and in Bucharest, he graduated from the literature faculty of Bucharest University.
  • He then went to Leipzig University, where he studied under Gustav Weigand and earned a doctorate in philosophy.
  • Papahagi taught high school in Ottoman Thessaloniki and Bitola, in Bulgarian Silistra and in Giurgiu, Romania.
  • His first published work, which appeared in Analele Academiei Române in 1893, was a collection of children's folklore, Jocuri copilare?ti.
  • Culese de la românii din Macedonia.
  • His contributions also appeared in Analele Dobrogei, Arhiva, Convorbiri Literare, Fra?il’ia, Grai bun, Grai ?i suflet, Jahresbericht des Instituts fĂĽr rumänische Sprache zu Leipzig, Peninsula Balcanica, Revue historique de sud-est europĂ©en, Via?a noua and Via?a Româneasca.
  • He headed Dunarea magazine, which appeared in two volumes in 1923.
  • In 1916, he was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.An acknowledged authority on the life and languages of the Romance-speaking peoples from south of the Danube, the Aromanians and Megleno-Romanians, he wrote several foundational texts on the subject that are classic models of sociological and folkloristic monographs.
  • These include: Din literatura poporana a aromânilor, 1900; Românii din Meglenia.
  • Texte ?i glosar, 1900; Meglenoromânii.
  • Studiu etnografic, vol.
  • I-II, 1902; Basme aromâne ?i glosar, 1905; Scriitori aromâni Ă®n secolul al XVIII-[lea], 1909; and Poezia Ă®nstrainarii la aromâni, 1912.
  • Together, by taking a combined approach to linguistics and folklore, they prefigure the methodology of Ovid Densusianu's philological school.
  • He died in Silistra.

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