Ienăchiță Văcărescu
Portrait of Ienăchiță Văcărescus by Anton Chladek
Ienăchiţă Văcărescu (* 1740 , † 11. July 1797 ) was a Wallachian diplomat, poet, historian, linguist and Rumänist .
life and work
Văcărescu came from a boyar family in the Principality of Wallachia . He was highly educated and multilingual, wrote poetry, a history of the Ottoman Empire , a small Turkish-Romanian dictionary (around 1790) and in 1787 one of the first grammars of Romanian based on Italian models, which Ion Heliade-Rădulescu used for his own grammar from 1828 has been.
There is a school in Târgovişte and a street in Bucharest is named after him.
Works
- Observații sau băgări de seamă asupra regulilor și orânduielilor gramaticii româneşti (“Observations on the rules and structures of Romanian grammar”), Râmnicu Sărat 1787
- Opere , ed. by Cornel Cîrstoiu, Bucharest 1985
- Istoria Othomanicească , ed. by Gabriel Ștrempel, Bucharest 2001
literature
- Theodor Gartner, Presentation of the Romanian language , Halle an der Saale 1904, p. 81
- Dimitrie Gazdaru, Modelul italian al gramaticii lui Vâcârescu, in: Arhiva 43, 1936
- Cornel Cîrstoiu, Ianache Văcărescu. Viața și opera , Bucharest 1974
- Paul Miron: 189. Romanian Lexicography. In: Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta (eds.): Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of the volume . Berlin and New York 1990, pp. 1880–1891, here: p. 1883
- Andrei Capusan, Ienachita Vacarescu - diplomat. 200 de ani de la incetarea din viata, in: Biography and Romanian studies = Biografie și studii românești , Iași / Portland, Or. 1998
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Văcărescu, Ienăchiță |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Văcărescul, Janake; Văcărescu, Ianache |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wallachian diplomat, poet, historian, Romanist and Romanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1740 |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 11, 1797 |