George Bariț
George Bariț , also Gheorghe Barițiu , (* 1812 in Jucu de Jos , Cluj County , Transylvania ; † May 2, 1893 in Sibiu ) was a Romanian historian, philologist, journalist and founder of the first Romanian-language press in Transylvania.
biography
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His parents were the Greek Catholic (Romanian Uniate) priests Ioan Pop Bariț and Ana Rafila.
He attended the school in Trascău (now Rimetea ) in Alba County and the seminaries in Blaj and Cluj , where he was trained as a priest.
However, he decided to become a teacher of the Romanian language at the school in Brașov (Kronstadt) founded by merchants . There he founded the first Romanian newspaper Gazeta de Transilvania in 1838 with the literary supplement Foaie pentru minte, inimă și literatură (notes for the mind, heart and literature).
In 1836 he had traveled to Bucharest with Timotei Cipariu . On his return, Johann Gött , the editor of a Romanian newspaper, left him the editor.
He was politically active in the revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire . He made connections with Romanian nationalists and radicals. After the Hungarian revolutionaries put pressure to detach Transylvania from Austrian rule, he demanded in his newspaper the same rights for Romanians as for the Hungarian population in Transylvania.
Until the Austro-Hungarian compromise in 1866/67, he devoted himself to cultural activities again. With Andrei Șaguna , Timotei Cipariu and others he founded the ASTRA (Asociația Transilvană pentru Literatura Română și Cultura Poporului Român) on November 4, 1861, whose first secretary and later president (1888-1893) he was. When ASTRA started publishing Transilvania magazine , he became its chief editor. On April 1, 1866 he was a founding member of the Societatea Literară Română (Romanian Society of Literature; today: Romanian Academy ). From 1884 to 1888 he was president of the Partidul Național Român din Transilvania și Banat (PNR, Romanian National Party).
From 1889 to 1891 he published Părți alese din Istoria Transilvaniei pre două sute de ani în urmă (Selected Episodes from the Last 200 Years of Transylvanian History). He was also an author of the first Romanian-language encyclopedia, which appeared from 1898 to 1904.
He is buried at the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Sibiu.
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Baritu, Georg . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 158 f. ( Digitized version ).
- V. Netea, C. Göllner: The relationship between George Bariț and the Kronstadt printer Johann Gött . In: Forschungsungen zur Volks- und Landeskunde 9, 1966, No. 1, pp. 75–90.
- Ştefan Pascu (ed.): George Bariț și contemporanii săi (George Bariț and his contemporaries). Vol. 1–7, Bucharest 1973–1986
- Dionisie Ghermani: Bariţiu, George . In: Biographical Lexicon on the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 1. Munich 1974, p. 137 f.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ro: Foaie pentru minte, inimă și literatură
- ↑ A short history of Transylvania
- ^ The Romanian National Movement in Transylvania and the Romanian Principalities .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bariț, George |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Barițiu, Gheorghe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian historian, philologist and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1812 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jucu de Jos , Cluj County , Transylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 2, 1893 |
| Place of death | Sibiu |