Anton Pann

Statue of Anton Pann in Râmnicu Vâlcea

Anton Pann (* between 1794 and 1798 in Sliven , Rumelia , † November 2, 1854 in Bucharest ; born Antonie Pantoleon-Petroveanu , also Anton Pantoleon or Anton Petrovici ) was a Romanian -speaking poet, composer and musicologist.

Pann came to Bucharest with his family on the run from the Russo-Turkish War in 1812, where he spent most of his life. Before the rebel troops Tudor Vladimirescus he fled in 1821 to Kronstadt in Transylvania , where he became cantor at the Nikolaikirche. 1827-28 he was a teacher at the Orthodox seminary of Râmnicu Vâlcea . In 1828 he returned to Bucharest, where he worked as a music professor.

In the following decade, most of his literary and musical work was created. From 1842 he was a professor at the Seminarul Sf. Mitropolii . During this time he was also a collector of classical Ottoman music and the music of the Roma . In 1843 he founded a publishing house in which he published works by contemporary authors and a large number of almanacs. Works such as the Alexander novel , A Thousand and One Nights and Till Eulenspiegel also appeared here .

In 1848 Pann published a Romanian-Russian-Ottoman dictionary. During the Wallachian Revolution in 1848 he sided with the liberal revolutionaries and supported the Wallachian Provisional Government. In the last years of his life he wrote a series of stories about the character of Hodscha Nasreddin .

Works

Versuri musiceşti
Poezii deosebite sau cântece de lume
Îndreptătorul bețivilor
Hristoitia sau școala moralului
Noul erotocrit
Marş de primăvară
Memorialul focului mare
Culegere de proverburi sau Povestea over
Adiata
Înțeleptul Archir și nepotul său Anadam
Spitalul amorului sau Cântecul dorului
O șezătoare la țară sau Călătoria lui Moș Albu
Versuri sau Cântece de stea
Cântătorul beției. Care cuprinde numele bețivilor și toate faptele care decurg din beție
Triumful beției sau Diata ce o lasă un bețiv pocăit fiului său
Năzdrăvăniile lui Nastratin Hogea
Povești și angdote versificate
De la lume adunate și iarăși la lume date

Web links

Commons : Anton Pann - Collection of images, videos and audio files

The “Anton Pann” museum in Râmnicu Vâlcea, on www.crestinortodox.ro

personal data
SURNAME	Pann, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pantoleon-Petroveanu, Antonie; Pantoleon, Anton; Petrovici, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian-speaking poet, composer and musicologist
DATE OF BIRTH	between 1794 and 1798
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sliven , Rumelia
DATE OF DEATH	November 2, 1854
Place of death	Bucharest