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

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(), a village that formed part of the

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and is now in Greece. After attending school in his native village and in

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, he graduated from the literature faculty of the

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. He then went to

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, where he studied under

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and earned a doctorate in philosophy. Papahagi taught high school in Ottoman

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and

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, in Bulgarian

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, and in

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, 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'', ''

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'', ''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 ''

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

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.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

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, 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'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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' (1905) at Internet Archive. {{DEFAULTSORT:Papahagi, Pericle 1872 births 1943 deaths People from Avdella Aromanians from the Ottoman Empire Romanian people of Aromanian descent Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Romania University of Bucharest alumni Leipzig University alumni Corresponding members of the Romanian Academy Romanian literary historians Romanian folklorists Aromanian editors Romanian magazine editors Aromanian schoolteachers Romanian schoolteachers Teachers at the Romanian High School of Bitola

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