Tache Papahagi, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Tache Papahagi

Romanian professor

Date of Birth: 06-Oct-1892

Date of Death: 17-Jan-1977

Profession: professor, romanist, linguist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Tache Papahagi

  • Tache Papahagi (October 20, 1892–January 17, 1977) was an Ottoman-born Romanian folklorist and linguist. 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.
  • He attended primary school in his native village, followed from 1902 to 1912 by studies at the Romanian high schools in Ioannina and Bitola.
  • From 1912 to 1916, he went to the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University.
  • In 1925, he obtained a doctorate in philology from the same institution; his thesis dealt with the Maramure? dialect and folklore.
  • He was a high school teacher at Târgu Neam? from 1916 to 1918.
  • Papahagi was then hired at his alma mater, where he rose from teaching assistant (1920-1925) to docent (1926-1928), associate professor (1928-1943) and full professor (1943-1948).His first book was a printed conference report, the 1915 Aromânii din punct de vedere istoric, cultural ?i politic.
  • In 1927, he started a course on Romanian linguistic ethnography, the first of its kind.
  • His contributions appeared in Grai ?i suflet, Langue et littĂ©rature and Viea?a noua.
  • His research was consistently interdisciplinary, combining ethnography, folklore and dialectology, and analyzing phenomena from comparatist, Romance and Balkan perspectives.
  • A good part of his work dealt with the literary, folk and religious corpus in the Aromanian language, and was aimed at making it known and emphasizing its value.
  • An early text in this direction was Antologie aromâneasca (1922).
  • His studies of ethnography and folklore (among them Images d’ethnographie roumaine, vol.
  • I-III, 1928-1934; Macedoromânii say aromânii, 1927; Aromânii.
  • Grai, folclor, etnografie, 1932; Poezia lirica populara, 1948, Mic dic?ionar folcloric, 1979), as well as of linguistics (Din morfologia limbei române, 1937; Manual de fonetica romanica, 1943; Dic?ionarul dialectului aromân general ?i etimologic, 1963), are the result of careful fieldwork and show a vast erudition not only in his specialty, but also in related fields.
  • Papahagi held numerous university courses on linguistics, ethnography and folklore, many of which were printed.
  • In 1964, the year he became an emeritus professor, he was granted the State Prize.

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