Ovid Densusianu

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Ovid Densusianu

Ovid Densusianu (* 29. December 1873 in Făgăraş , † 8. June 1938 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian linguist , Rumänist , folklorist and poet.

life and work

Ovid Densusianu was the son of the literary historian Aron Densușianu (1837-1900). He attended primary school in Săcele until he moved to Iași with his family in 1881. There he studied with Alexandru Philippide (1859-1933) and graduated in 1892. As a high school teacher in Focşani , he stayed on a study visit with Adolf Tobler in Berlin, who recommended him to Paris. From 1893 to 1896 he studied with Gaston Paris at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris and finished with the publication of La Prize de Cordres et de Sebille. Chanson de geste du 12e siècle (Paris 1896, in the series: Société des anciens textes français; reprint, New York 1965).

In 1897 (officially 1901) Densusianu took over the chair for Romanian language and literature at the University of Bucharest and in 1918 became an active member of the Romanian Academy (corresponding member since 1901). He was the founder and editor of the magazines Viața nouă (1905–1925) and Grai și suflet (1923–1938). Ovid Densusianu is considered to be the founder of modern Romanian Romance studies.

Works (selection)

  • Histoire de la langue roumaine. Les origines. Le 16e siècle, 2 vols., Paris 1901-1938; ed. by Valeriu Rusu [1935-2008], Bucharest 1997 (Romanian Bucharest 1961, see below)
  • Povestiri cin cronicari, Bucharest 1901
  • (Ed. With Ion Aurel Candrea and Theodor Sperantia) Graiul nostru. Texts din părțile locuite de români, 2 vols., Bucharest 1906-1907
  • (with Ion Aurel Candrea ) Dicționarul etimologic al limbii române. Elementele latine (A - putea), Bucharest 1907-1914; ed. by Grigore Brâncuș, Pitești 2003
  • Limanuri albe, Bucharest 1912
  • Graiul din Țara Hațegului, Bucharest 1915
  • (Ed.) Antologie dialectală, Bucharest 1915
  • Literatura romînă modernă, 3 vols., Bucharest 1920-1921-1933
  • Flori alese din cîntecele poporului, Bucharest 1920 (French: Florilège des chants populaires roumains, Paris 1934)
  • Sufletul latin s̡i literatura nouă, 2 vols., Bucharest 1922
  • Vieat̡a păstorească în poesia noastră populară, Bucharest 1922-1923
  • Raze peste lespezi, Paris / Bucharest 1924 (seal)
  • Istoria limbii romîne. 1. Original. 2. Secolul al XVI lea, ed. by Jacques Byck , 2 vols., Bucharest 1961
  • Flori alese din cîntecele poporului. Vieaţa păstorească în poezia noastră populară. Folclorul. Cum trebuie înţeles. Graiul don Ţara Haţegului, ed. by Marin Bucur, Bucharest 1966
  • Opere, ed. by Boris Cazacu , Valeriu Rusu and Ioan Șerb, 6 vols., Bucharest 1968-1985
  • Ideal și îndemnuri [considerații teoretico-programatice privind specificul și destinul literaturii române în primul deceniu al secolului], ed. by Călin Manilici, Cluj-Napoca 1980
  • Literatura română modernă, Bucharest 1985
  • Teorie şi estetică literară. Pagini de jurnal, Bucharest 1998 (Scrieri literare 1),

literature

  • Basil Munteanu, Un vizionar al latinităt̡ii, latinaitatea, Frant̡a s̡i sufletul autohton în concept̡ia lui Ovid Densusianu, Bucharest 1945
  • Marin Bucur, Ovid Densusianu, Bucharest 1967
  • Marin Bucur, Corespondentă inedită Ovid Densusianu - Gaston Paris si Paul Meyer, in: Revista de Istorie si Teorie literară 18, 1969, pp. 257-265 and 677-686
  • Scrisori către Ovid Densuşianu, ed. by Liviu Onu, 2 vols., Bucharest 1979-1981
  • Anca Calangiu / Mihai Vătan / Maria Negraru, Ovidiu Densuşianu (1873–1938). Biobibliography, Bucharest 1991
  • Gheorghe Firczak, In memoriam, Ovid Densușianu 1873-1938, Deva 1994
  • Marin Buga, Ovid Densusianu, folclorist, Bucharest 2003
  • Ovid Densusianu în amintirea şi conştiinţa critică românească, ed. by Ion Diaconu and Ioan Şerb, Bucharest 2005
  • Marta Andronache, Autour de la Romania. Un demi-siècle de philologie roumaine dans le contexte européen (1872-1935), Thèse de doctorat, Nancy 2006 ( Gaston Paris and his Romanian students)

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personal data
SURNAME Densusianu, Ovid
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian Romanist, Romanist, folklorist and poet
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Săcel (Maramureș)
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1938
Place of death Bucharest