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Dan Slușanschi

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Dan Slușanschi (12 September 1943 – 22 July 2008) was a 20th century Romanian classicist and specialist in Indo-European linguistics who made contributions in the fields of Ancient Greek, Latin/Medieval Latin and Persian.[1] He is known for his editions and translations of Dimitrie Cantemir's works.[2]

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Dan Slușanschi graduated in 1965 from the Faculty of Classical Philology of the University of Bucharest. He received his doctorate in classical and Indo-European philology in 1972. He was a professor at the University of Bucharest, where he taught Latin language syntax, Indo-European linguistics (language and mythology), history of Sanskrit literature, ancient Persian (history, civilization, language), history of the Latin language, Greek syntax, medieval and neo-Latin Latin, text criticism and ancient metrics. He was a visiting professor at the universities of Brussels, Liege, Berlin, Caen, Chisinau, Cluj, Timisoara, Constanta. He had a doctor honoris causa from the University of Caen.

Legacy

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The Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu holds a school of classical and oriental languages, which bears the name: Dan Slusanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages. The main languages promoted by the school are: Latin, Ancient Greek, Sahidic Coptic, Biblical Hebrew and Old Slavonic.[3][4] The school was founded by Antoaneta Sabău and Florin George Călian.[5][6]

Publications

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Editions

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  • Textele latine din anexa la L. Protopopescu, Contributii la istoria învatamîntului în Transilvania, Craiova, 1966.
  • D. Cantemir, Historia Moldo-Vlachica and De antiquis et hodiernis Moldaviae nominibus (în Opere Complete, IX, 1), Bucuresti, Editura Academiei, 1983.
  • D. Cantemir, Encomia in authorem, în V. Candea (ed.), Sistima religiei muhammedane, Bucuresti, Editura Academiei, 1987 (Opere Complete, VIII, 2).
  • D. Cantemir, Vita Constantini Cantemyrii, Moldaviae Principis, Bucuresti, Editura Academiei, 1996 (Opere Complete, VI, 1 - cu A. Pippidi si I. Campeanu).
  • Virgil, Aeneis, Bucuresti, Paideia, 2000, 2 vols. (I. Editie critica)
  • D. Cantemir, Incrementorum & Decrementorum Aulae Othmanicae libri III, editia critica princeps, Amarcord, 2001.
  • D. Cantemir, Descriptio Moldaviae, editia critica princeps, Bucuresti, Anastasia, 2005.
  • D. Cantemir, Sacro-Sanctae Scientiae Indepingibilis Imago, editie critica, Bucuresti, EUB, 2005.

Translations

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  • Dimitrie Cantemir, De antiquis et hodiernis Moldaviae nominibus; Historia Moldo-Vlachica Opere complete, Vol.IX, Partea I: De antiquis et hodiernis. Moldaviae nominibus, Prefața de Virgil Cândea. Ediție critică, traducere, introducere, note și indici de Dan Slușanschi, Editura Academiei, București, 1983.
  • E. Benveniste, Vocabularul institutiilor indo-europene, Bucuresti, Paideia, 1999, I; 2005, I-II.
  • Eneida de Publius Vergilius Maro, Editura Paideia, București, 2000.
  • Homer, Iliad, traducere de Dan Slușanschi, ilustrații de Mihail Coșulețu, Editura Humanitas, București, 2012, ISBN 978-973-50-3702-4
  • Homer, Odyssey, tradusă în hexametri de Dan Slușanschi și ilustrată de Alexandru Rădvan, Editura Humanitas, București, 2012, ISBN 978-973-50-3701-7.
  • Dimitrie Cantemir, Istoria cresterilor si descresterilor Curtii Otomane, prima traducere româneasca, Editura Paidea, 2008, 2010, 2012.

See also

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Bibliography

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Dan Slusanschi – portret de clasicist, edited by Ana-Maria Răducan and Florin George Călian

Nicht jeder Spezialist ist auch ein Intellektueller, Forscher Florin George Călian erzählt von Antoaneta Sabău, der Antike und Dan Slusanschi, by Klaus Philippi

References

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  1. ^ "Profesorul Dan Slușanschi sub aripile cuvintelor homerice". Republica (in Romanian). 17 September 2019. Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  2. ^ "Creșterea şi descreșterea Academiei Române" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2022-03-01.
  3. ^ "Summer School for Classical and Oriental Languages, 13 July - 7 August, 2020, Lucian Blaga University, Romania". ARMACAD. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  4. ^ "Dan Slușanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages - Summer Schools in Europe". www.summerschoolsineurope.eu. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  5. ^ "Europas alten Buchstaben auf den Zahn gefühlt". adz.ro. 24 September 2019. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  6. ^ "CCES" (in Romanian). Retrieved 2022-03-16.
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