Alexandru Philippide – Gustav Weigand: ipostaze
Philippide – Gustav Weigand: hypostases

Summary/Abstract: After 150 years since Alexandru Philippide (1859–1933) – the founder of the linguistic school at Iaşi – was born and after 100 years since the first linguistic atlas of the Romanian language (Linguistischer Atlas des dacorumänischen Sprachgebietes) was published by Gustav Weigand (Leipzig, 1909) the disputes between the two linguists are now making the object of this paper which is based on Philippide’s polemic work „Un specialist român la Lipsca” (A Romanian Specialist at Leipzig; Iaşi, 1910). We are presenting the Romanian philologist’s critical views on the results of Weigand’s dialectal research on Romanian dialects south of the Danube and on Daco-Romanian dialects. Philippide claims that some results of the recordings and their subsequent interpretation were biased by Weigand’s insufficient knowledge of the Romanian language and of the history of the Romanian language. This polemic also brings up the issue of Weigand’s Ph. D candidates’ papers which are criticized for about the same faults. These were published in 15 volumes of a magazine run by Weigand – „Jahresbericht des Instituts für rumänische Sprache (Rumänisches Seminar) zu Leipzig”. Finally we present some points of view regarding the activity of the institute mentioned in the title of the magazine and which was financed by the Romanian State. The head of the institute is criticized for the superior tone of the interventions and especially for the un-academic vocabulary Weigand used in his polemic writings regarding the works of some Romanian linguists. To conclude, we must point out that we should choose, from the linguistic inheritance left by the two scholars, only the positive aspects to create such a synthesis that would be useful to the history of Romanian linguistics.

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