Wajgand, Gustav (Gustav Oyigand) (Duisburg, Germany, 1. ⅱ 1860 – Duisburg, 8. ⅶ 1930) – German philologist -omanian and ethnographer, UNIV. Professor. After PhD, he was director of the Romanian Language Institute in Leipzig (from 1894) and professor of Romanian and Balkan philology and ethnography at the Leipzian University (from 1896). He was an editor and editor of Yearbook at the Romanian Institute in Leipzig (1894-1919) and the SP. “Balkan” (t. 1-4, 1925-1929). Two years he investigated through Macedonia and neighboring countries (Albania, Epirus and Greece), studying the language and ethnography of the Vlachs, for which he published several books and one atlas (1888, 1892, 1894 and 1909). He showed interest in the Macedonian language. He was elected as a correspondent member of Ban in Sofia (1902). He is the author of the grammars of the Romanian (1903), of the Bulgarian (1907) and Albanian language (1913), the Bulgarian-German Dictionary (1913), the dictionary of the Bulgarian personal names – the origin and significance (1926), as well as ethnographic Map of Macedonia (1895), a special addition to the “aspirations of the Balkan peoples” and a book on the ethnography of Macedonia. He helped Macedonian students in Leipzig. BIB.: Ethnographic outside Macedonia, Leithzig, 1924; Ethnographers for Macedonia, Translation of Namely Elena Pippileva, Sophie®, 1998. S. Ml.
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Кириличен напис ВАЈГАНД, Густав