Tache Papahagi (October 20, 1892 – January 17, 1977) was an Aromanian folklorist and linguist. He was born into an Aromanian family in Avdella (), a village that formed part of the

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's Manastir Vilayet and is now in

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. He attended primary school in his native village, followed from 1902 to 1912 by studies at the Romanian high schools in

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and

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. From 1912 to 1916, he went to the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University in

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. In 1925, he obtained a doctorate in

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from the same institution; his thesis dealt with the

Maramureș dialect The Maramureș dialect (''subdialectul/graiul maramureșean'') is one of the dialects of the Romanian language (Daco-Romanian). Its geographic distribution covers approximately the historical region of Maramureș, now split between Romania and Ukra ...

and folklore. He was a high school teacher at

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from 1916 to 1918. Papahagi was then hired at his alma mater, where he rose from teaching assistant (1920–1925) to

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(1926–1928), associate professor (1928–1943) and full professor (1943–1948). His first book was a printed conference report, the 1915 . In 1927, he started a course on Romanian linguistic ethnography, the first of its kind. His contributions appeared in , and . 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 The Aromanian language (, , , or ), also known as Macedo-Romanian or Vlach, is an Eastern Romance language, similar to Megleno-Romanian, Istro-Romanian and Romanian, spoken in Southeastern Europe. Its speakers are called Aromanians or Vlac ...

, and was aimed at making it known and emphasizing its value. An early text in this direction was (1922). His studies of ethnography and folklore (among them , vol. I-III, 1928-1934; , 1927; , 1932; , 1948, , 1979), as well as of linguistics (, 1937; , 1943; , 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.Aurel Sasu (ed.), , vol. II, p. 293. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Papahagi, Tache 1892 births 1977 deaths Aromanians from the Ottoman Empire Romanian people of Aromanian descent Emigrants from the Ottoman Empire to Romania University of Bucharest alumni Academic staff of the University of Bucharest Romanian ethnographers Romanian folklorists Aromanian schoolteachers Romanian schoolteachers Aromanian linguists Linguists from Romania People from Avdella 20th-century linguists

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