Horia Petra-Petrescu from Sibiu to Leipzig
This paper presents the first doctoral thesis on Ion Luca Caragiale, written by Horia Petra-Petrescu, in German, in Leipzig, under the coordination of Gustav Weigand. The thesis will be published in both German and Romanian, 100 years after having been defended, in 1910, in the presence of Ion Luca Caragiale (Horia Petra-Petrescu, I.L. Caragiale, Viaţa şi opera / Leben und Werke, Edition by Ioan Derşidan and Rudolf Windisch, Foreword by Ioan Derşidan, Afterword by Klaus Bochmann, Cluj-Napoca, Casa Cărţii de Stiinţă Publishing House, 2004).
Keywords: Horia Petra-Petrescu, PhD thesis, Ion Luca Caragiale, the Caragialian North, Gustav Weigand, Leipzig.