Gheorghe Șincai
Gheorghe Șincai (born February 28, 1754 in Râciu , Mureş district ; † November 2, 1816 in Svinia ) was a Romanian theologian, historian and Romanist from the Transylvanian School .
life and work
Șincai attended schools and colleges in Târgu Mureş , Klausenburg , Bistrița , Blaj , and (after entering the monastery of the Basilian in Blaj) from 1774 to 1779 in Rome, then in Vienna, where he met Samuil Micu . His multilingualism included Romanian, Greek, Latin, Hungarian, Italian, French and German. From 1784 to 1794 he was the head of the Transylvanian Greek Catholic school system, but then fell out with the church leadership under Ioan Bob and, after imprisonment and acquittal, was tutor to Count Daniel Vass von Szege in Svinia until 1801 . From 1804 to 1806 he supervised the printing of Romanian texts in Buda .
Șincai belonged to the Transylvanian School , which combined historical research on the origin of the Romanians with language description and language planning of Romanian. Together with Samuil Micu, Șincai wrote the first grammar of Romanian ( Elementa 1780). It contained evidence of the closeness of Romanian to Latin and was written in Latin (for reading by enlightened Europe).
In Romania, numerous streets and institutions bear the name Gheorge Șincais.
Works
- (with Samuil Micu ), Elementa linguae daco-romanae sive valachicae , Vienna 1780 (100 pages); Buda 1805 (sole author, 110 pages); ed. by Mircea Zdrenghea, Cluj-Napoca 1980 (with Romanian translation); Editing in German and Romanian: Ioan Piuariu-Molnar (Ed.) German-Wallachian language teaching , Vienna 1788
- Hronica românilor , 3 vols., Buda 1808; ed. by Grigore Aleksandru Ghika, 3 vols., Iassi 1853–1854, Bucharest 1886 (history)
- Opere , ed. by Florea Fugariu, Bucharest 1967–1973, 1978
literature
- Austrian Biographical Lexicon (ÖBL) 1815–1950, Vol. 12 (Lfg. 57, 2004), pp. 291f. sv Şincai (Sinkai), Gheorghe
- Mircea Tomus̡, Gheorghe S̡incai. Viat̡a s̡i opera , Bucharest 1965, 1994
- Klaus Steinke, Sinkai's corrections to the Elementa linguae daco-romanae ... in the new edition of 1805, in: Analele Ştiinţifice ale "Universităţii Alexandru Ioan Cuza" din Iaşi (series nouă), Secţiunea III (Ştiinţe sociale), e. Lingvistică 17, 1971, pp. 109-119
- Dimitrie Macrea, Contribuţii la istoria lingvisticii şi filologiei româneşti , Bucharest 1978, pp. 22-30
Web links
- Entry on the elementa in the Corpus de textes linguistiques fondamentaux
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Șincai, Gheorghe |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian theologian, historian and Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 28, 1754 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Șincai , Mureș County |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 2, 1816 |
| Place of death | Svinia |