Pericle Papahagi (1872 – January 20, 1943) was an Aromanian literary historian and folklorist. He was born into an Aromanian family in

Avdella Avdella ( el, Αβδέλλα; rup, Avdhela) is a village and a former Communities and Municipalities of Greece, municipality in Grevena (regional unit), Grevena regional unit, West Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform, it ha ...

(), a village that formed part of the

Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) ...

's Manastir Vilayet and is now in Greece. After attending school in his native village and in

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

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, he graduated from the literature faculty of

Bucharest University The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princely ...

. He then went to

Leipzig University Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December ...

, where he studied under

Gustav Weigand Gustav Weigand (1 February 1860 – 8 July 1930), 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 earned a doctorate in philosophy. Papahagi taught high school in Ottoman

Thessaloniki Thessaloniki (; el, Θεσσαλονίκη, , also known as Thessalonica (), Saloniki, or Salonica (), is the second-largest city in Greece, with over one million inhabitants in its metropolitan area, and the capital of the geographic region of ...

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 copilărești. Culese de la românii din Macedonia''. His contributions also appeared in ''Analele Dobrogei'', ''Arhiva'', '' Convorbiri Literare'', ''Frățil’ia'', ''Grai bun'', ''Grai și suflet'', ''Jahresbericht des Instituts für rumänische Sprache zu Leipzig'', ''Peninsula Balcanică'', ''Revue historique de sud-est européen'', ''Viața nouă'' and ''

Viața Românească ''Viața Românească'' (, "The Romanian Life") is a monthly literary magazine published in Romania. Formerly the platform of the left-wing traditionalist trend known as poporanism, it is now one of the Writers' Union of Romania's main venues. ...

''. He headed ''Dunărea'' magazine, which appeared in two volumes in 1923. In 1916, he was elected a corresponding member of the

Romanian Academy The Romanian Academy ( ro, Academia Română ) is a cultural forum founded in Bucharest, Romania, in 1866. It covers the scientific, artistic and literary domains. The academy has 181 active members who are elected for life. According to its byl ...

.Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent
at the Romanian Academy site An acknowledged authority on the life and languages of the Romance-speaking peoples from south of the Danube, the Aromanians and

Megleno-Romanians The Megleno-Romanians, also known as Meglenites ( ruq, Miglinits), Moglenite Vlachs or simply Vlachs ( ruq, Vlaș), are a small Eastern Romance people, originally inhabiting seven villages in the Moglena region spanning the Pella and Kilkis re ...

, he wrote several foundational texts on the subject that are classic models of sociological and folkloristic monographs. These include: ''Din literatura poporană a aromânilor'', 1900; ''Românii din Meglenia. Texte și glosar'', 1900; ''Meglenoromânii. Studiu etnografic'', vol. I-II, 1902; ''Basme aromâne și glosar'', 1905; ''Scriitori aromâni în secolul al XVIII- ea', 1909; and ''Poezia înstrăinării la aromâni'', 1912. Together, by taking a combined approach to linguistics and folklore, they prefigure the methodology of

Ovid Densusianu Ovid Densusianu (; also known under his pen name Ervin; 29 December 1873, Făgăraș – 9 June 1938, Bucharest) was a Romanian poet, philologist, linguist, folklorist, literary historian and critic, chief of a poetry school, university professor ...

's philological school. He died in Silistra.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 292. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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