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Chapter 7 ♦  265 In Bukovina und Bohemia, German-speaking scholars also remained productive as cultural intermediaries. In Prague one might surmise that the contact between scholars from the Czech and German universities was bet- ter than during the Habsburg period, resulting in informal cooperation and formal joint enterprises.109 The Romance-language scholar Eugen Herzog, in turn, may serve as an example of the new situation in Bukovina. His most important work in philology was an extensive early Romanian grammar, published in 1919 in German, coauthored with Sextil Puşcariu. During his work in Chernivtsi, Herzog also published in Dacoromania (Daco Romania), Codrul Cosminului (Cosmin forest), and Revista Filologică (Philological re- view) and served as a member of the editorial board of the first journal. Apart from this work on Ruthenian grammar, his research on a glossary of the folk speech of Marginea village (currently in Suceava County, Romania) was also widely and positively reviewed.110 Not exclusively devoted to Romanian, he published on Old French as well, and his contributions in Chernivtsi were highly valued, as the obituaries published by the most important philologists of the time prove.111 With Chernivtsi, the circle of central European exile closes. By around 1900, it was the last place many Habsburg scholars wanted to be, and all were heading to Vienna. Post-Habsburg central Europe, a republic of learning still waiting to be analyzed as a space with a truly transnational intellectual culture amid national boundaries, changed the geography of intellectual rela- tions, but the revolution was still ahead, completed only through the atrocities of World War II and the subsequent Cold War isolationism. The interwar period instead continued the trends already outlined during the late Habsburg monarchy. The language-based geography of ex- change described in previous chapters was realized under the auspices of the new states, putting previously provincial centers in prominent positions under new spatial-political circumstances. Habsburg scholars dominated not only Ljubljana but also Warsaw, thus traversing the boundaries of Habsburg domains. The knowledge that was transferred extended far beyond aca- demic knowledge, for Habsburg scholars were instrumental in devising academic laws and policies, at both the university and the state levels. The influence of the Habsburg Empire also lived on through personal contacts, for example, when Masaryk helped Gomperz or when, some years earlier, he helped found a Ukrainian university in Prague. One could, how- ever, suggest tentatively that for central Europe, Prague began to play the role Vienna had during the Habsburg period, forming a place of refuge for