Florian Aaron

Florian Aaron (* 21st January 1805 in Rod , Sibiu county ; † 12. July 1887 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian journalist, historian, linguist , Rumänist and lexicographer.

Life

Aaron studied in Sibiu , Blaj and Budapest . He then taught in Craiova , Goleşti Vrancea County , for many years at the St Sava College in Bucharest and finally at the University of Bucharest, founded in 1864 .

Together with Gheorge (Georg) Hill, he founded the first Romanian daily newspaper in the Great Wallachia in Bucharest and T. "România" in 1837 (it was only published from December 20th to 31st).

With Petrache Poenaru (Poyenar) and Gheorghe Hill, he created an early French-Romanian dictionary in 1840 by translating the Dictionnaire de l'Académie française from 1835 into Romanian .

Works

Idea repede de istoria Prințipatului Țării Româneşti , 3 vols., Bucharest 1835–1838 (overview of the history of the Principality of Wallachia )
(with Petrache Poenaru and Georg Hill) Vocabulaire français-valaque d'après la dernière édition du dictionnaire de l'Académie Française , augmenté de plusieurs autres mots par P. Poyenar, Directeur des écoles nationales, F. Aaron et G. Hill, Professeurs du Collège St Sava. Vocabularulu frantezo-romanesc , 2 vols., Imprimerie du Collège St. Sava, Bucharest 1840–41 (824 + 836 pages)

literature

Paul Miron, 189. Romanian Lexicography, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann , Oskar Reichmann , Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta , Berlin. New York 1990, pp. 1883-1884

Web links

http://www.infoazi.ro/evenimente/a-decedat-florian-aaron-istoric-roman-si-participant-la-revolutia-de-la-1848/ (Biographical note, Romanian)

personal data
SURNAME	Aaron, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian journalist, historian, Romanist, Romanist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH	January 21, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rod , Sibiu County
DATE OF DEATH	July 12, 1887
Place of death	Bucharest