page_title: Gustav Weigand
section_title: Major works
hierarchical_section_title: Gustav Weigand / Major works
caption_attribution_description: Ethnic map of the Southwestern Balkan Peninsula
context_page_description: Gustav Weigand, was a German linguist and specialist in Balkan languages, especially Romanian and Aromanian. He is known for his seminal contributions to the dialectology of the Romance languages of the Balkans and to the study of the relationships between the languages of the Balkan sprachbund.
  Weigand was born in Duisburg, in the Prussian Rhine Province. He studied Romance languages in Leipzig and wrote a doctoral thesis about the language of the Vlachs 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 the German authorities to conduct ethnographic studies in Macedonia, then under German occupation. The results were published in 1923.
context_section_description: (1888): Die Sprache der Olympo-Walachen. Johann Ambrosius Barth: Leipzig.
  (1892): Vlacho-Meglen. Eine ethnographisch-philologische Untersuchung. Leipzig.
  (1908): Linguistischer Atlas des dacorumänischen Sprachgebiets. Barth: Leipzig.
  (1923): Ethnographie Makedoniens. Leipzig.
caption: Ethnographic map of the Southwestern Balkan Peninsula (including Northern Epirus), by linguist Gustav Weigand (1890)
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