Ion Budai-Deleanu
Ion Budai-Deleanu (1760-1820)[1] was a Romanian scholar and poet, born in Transylvania.[2]
Budai-Deleanu studied in the College of Saint Barbara in Vienna.[1] After completing his doctorate at the University of Erlau, he settled in Lemberg (now Lviv in Ukraine).[3] He finished an epic poem, entitled Țiganiada ("Gypsy Epic"), about a band of gypsies that fought alongside the army of Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler of Wallachia.[1]
He was one of the first proponents of the idea of the unification of the lands that now form Romania.[4] He proposed that the union should be achieved under the rule of the Habsburgs, through the annexation of Wallachia and Moldavia into the Grand Principality of Transylvania.[5]
According to Budai-Deleanu, the Dacians did not have a role in the ethnogenesis of the Romanian people.[6] He thought that the Dacians were the ancestors of the Poles.[6]
He promoted the purification of the Romanian language from loanwords, proposing that only borrowings from Italian and French should be permitted.[7] He also strove for the replacement of the Cyrillic script with the Latin alphabet.[7]
References
- ^ a b c Florescu & McNally 1989, p. 216.
- ^ Georgescu 1991, p. 116.
- ^ Florescu & McNally 1989, p. 217.
- ^ Georgescu 1991, pp. 165–166.
- ^ Georgescu 1991, pp. 117, 166.
- ^ a b Boia 1997, p. 86.
- ^ a b Georgescu 1991, p. 120.
Sources
- Boia, Lucian (1997). History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness. Central European University Press. ISBN 963-9116-97-1.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Florescu, Radu R.; McNally, Raymond T. (1989). Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and his Times. Back Bay Books. ISBN 978-0-316-28656-5.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Georgescu, Vlad (1991). The Romanians: A History. Ohio State University Press. ISBN 0-8142-0511-9.
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