Olga Cicanci

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Olga Cicanci (born April 20, 1940 in Cahul , Bessarabia , today Moldova , † February 7, 2013 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian neo-Graecist , historian and paleographer .

Life

Olga Cicanci, who was of Greek descent on her mother's side, graduated from the History Faculty of the University of Bucharest in 1962 . She was a researcher in the Department of World History of the Institute N. Iorga of the Romanian Academy (1962–1969) and in the Institute for Southeast European Studies of the Romanian Academy (1969–1996). In 1976 she received her doctorate there with a dissertation on the Greek trading companies in Transylvania in history. Since 1993 she was a lecturer, later professor of Greek palaeography and history at the Faculty of History of the University of Bucharest and the Faculty of Archival Science at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza Police Academy in Bucharest . She was a founding member of the Romanian Society for Neo-Greek Studies and its chairman since 1998.

In 1981 she received the Nicolae Balcescu Prize of the Romanian Academy, and in 2001 the Knight's Cross of the Romanian Order of Merit for Culture .

Research priorities

In her dissertation, which was awarded by the Romanian Academy in 1981, she dealt with the fate of the Greek trading companies in the Transylvanian cities of Brașov and Sibiu between the 17th and 19th centuries. She has made significant contributions to research on Greek printing in Romania as well as to other topics of the Greek diaspora in Romania . To various Greek personalities who were in contact with Romania, such as Rigas Velestinlis , Daniil Philippidis (Δανιήλ Φιλιππίδης), Markos Porphyropoulos (Μάρκος Πορφυρόπουλος, fl. 17th century) and Chrysanthos 16–55 17 , she made important contributions. Edited and translated them beyond the Ιστορία της Ρουμουνίας (Romanian History) of Thessalers Daniil Philippidis and Ιστορία εκκλησιαστών τε και πολιτικών πραγμάτων (history of religious and political affairs) of Athanasios Komninos Ypsilanti (Αθανάσιος Κομνηνός Υψηλάντης, * 1711).

Fonts (selection)

  • Companiile greceşti din Transilvania şi comerţul european în anii 1636–1746. Bucharest 1981. ("The Greek companies in Transylvania and European trade in the years 1636–1746")
  • Médecins grecs participants à la vie politique et culturelle des Pays Roumains aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. In: Δελτίο Κέντρου Μικρασιατικών Σπουδών 10, 1993-1994.
  • Presa de limbă greacă din România în veacul al XIX-lea. Bucharest 1995. ("The Greek Printing Industry in Romania in the 19th Century")
  • Les Roumains. In: Association Internationale d'Etudes du Sud-Est Européen (ed.), Pour une Grande Histoire des Balkans, dès origines aux Guerres Balkaniques. Paris, 2004.
  • Représentants de la diaspora grecque dans la vie culturelle de l'espace roumain (fin XVIe – début XIXe siècle). In: Paschalis M. Kitromilidès, Anna Tabaki (ed.), Relations gréco-roumains. Interculturalité et identité nationale. Athens, 2004.
  • Rhigas Velestinlis et la vie socio-politique roumaine. In: Οι Ρουμάνοι για τον Ρήγα. Ιστορικές αναφορές. Εκδόσεις Ομόνοια, Bucharest 2007, pp. 399-409.
  • Το στάδιο της έρευνας σχετικά με την ελληνική εμπορική διάσπορα στον ρουμανικό χώρο (τον 17ο – 18ο. Αιών) In: Εώα και Εσπέρια 7, 2007, pp. 409-421, (PDF; online) . ("The state of research in relation to the Greek trade diaspora in the Romanian region (17th to 18th centuries)")

Participation in her function as chairwoman of the Romanian Society for Neo-Greek Studies

  • Constantin Litzica: Κατάλογος των Ελληνικών Χειρογράφων της Βιβλιοθήκης της Ρουμανικής Ακαδημίας. Πρώτος τόμος. Bucharest 2005 (nos. 1-830). ("Catalog of the Greek Manuscripts of the Library of the Romanian Academy")
  • Νέστωρ Καμαριανός: Κατάλογος των Ελληνικών Χειρογράφων της Βιβλιοθήκης της Ρουημανικής Ακδημίας. Δεύτερος τόμος. Bucharest 2005 (nos. 831-1066)
  • Mihai Karatassou: Κατάλογος των Ελληνικών Χειρογράφων της Βιβλιοθήκης της Ρουμανικής Ακαδημίας. Τρίτος τόμος. Bucharest 2005 (No. 1067-1350)

Translations into Romanian

  • Daniil Philippidis: Istoria României. Translation into Romanian, introduction and explanations by Olga Cicanci. Pegasus Press, Bucharest 2004.
  • Σταυρινός-Παλαμήδης: Ριμάδια για τον Μιχαίλ Γενναίο. Μετάφραση, πρόλογος και σημειώσεις. Εκδόσεις Ομόνοια, Bucharest 2004.
  • Πασχάλης Μ. Κιτρομηλίδης: Νεοελληνικός Διαφωτισμός. Οι κοινωνικές και πολιτικές ιδέες. Εκδόσεις Ομόνοια, Bucharest 2005.
  • Αθανάσιος Κομνηνός Υψηλάντης: Ιστορία εκκλησιαστών τε και πολιτικών πραγμάτων. (Unpublished).

literature

  • Λουκία Δρούλια, Άννα Ταμπάκη: Olga Cicanci (Cahul Βεσσαραβίας, 20 Απριλίου 1940 - Βουκουρέστι, 7 Φεβρουαρίου 2013). In: INE Newsletter 37, 2012, pp. 91–92, (online) at ine-newsletter.org.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Elena Lazar: Ο ελληνικός τύπος στην Ρουμανία κατά τον 19ο αιώνα. In: Πάπυροι 1, 2012, pp. 140–142, (online) .
personal data
SURNAME Cicanci, Olga
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian Neo-Graecist, historian and paleographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Cahul , Bessarabia , now Moldova
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 2013
Place of death Bucharest , Romania