Gustav Weigand

Gustav Weigand (1 February 1860 – 8 July 1930) was a German linguist and specialist in Balkan languages, especially Romanian and Aromanian.

[citation needed] He has also provided substantial contribution to Aromanian studies,[1] an example of this being the discovery and publication of the contents of the Codex Dimonie.

[2] Weigand was born in Duisburg, in the Prussian Rhine Province.

During the following years he continued to conduct extensive personal field studies in the Balkans.

He was also a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and of the Macedonian Scientific Institute.