Sava Barcianu-Popovici

Sava Barcianu-Popovici (* 1814 in Răşinari ; † 24. March 1879 ) was a Romanian clerics , linguist , Rumänist , German scholar , grammarian and lexicographer .

life and work

Barcianu attended schools in Sibiu and Cluj-Napoca . He studied theology in Sibiu, then medicine and technology in Vienna. From 1838 to 1847 he taught in Răşinari, then he taught theology as a professor in Sibiu. From 1839 he was a pastor, in 1856 a pastor in the Austrian army.

Barcianu was a member of the Asociaţia Transilvană pentru Literatura Română şi Cultura Poporului Român (ASTRA), founded in 1861, which was important for the emergence of the Romanian national consciousness in Transylvania .

Barcianu published dictionaries and grammars of Romanian and German.

Barcianu was a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy (1869).

A school bears his name in his hometown of Rășinari.

Barcianu was the father of the intellectual and politician Daniel Popovici Barcianu (1847-1903).

Works

(Translator) Adunare de istorii morale alese , 2 vols., Sibiu 1846–1848
- Culegere de istorioare morale , Sibiu 1876
Epistolar sau carte de învăţătură pentru deprinderea în corespondinţe şi scrisori, atât private cât şi politice , Sibiu 1847, 1863
Curs de aritmetică pentru folosul şi trebuiţa tinerimei române , Sibiu 1848
Abţedar pentru folosul şcoalelor de legea greco-răsăriteană , Sibiu 1851, 1852, 1854
Istoria biblicească, cu intrebări şi răspunsuri , Sibiu 1851

Language works Romanian and German

Gramatica română . Curs pregătitor pentru şcoalele secundare preparandii şi privaţi, Sibiu 1852
Abbreviated conversation and dictionary of the German and Romanian languages , Sibiu 1852, 1857
Gramatica românească pentru şcoalele populare. Wallachian grammar for elementary schools , Sibiu 1853, 1856, 1864
Gramatica germană teoretică şi practică pentru uzul tinerimei române , Sibiu 1854, 1864, 1867, 1873
Gramatica romînă-germană sau îndreptarea teoretico-practică spre a învăţa limba germană , Sibiu 1855
Abecedar nemţesc pentru şcoalele populare , Sibiu 1856, 1867, 1871
Theoretical-practical grammar of the Romanian and German language. For school and personal use , Sibiu 1858, 1862, 1871 (based on the model of Andreas Joseph Fornasari-Verce, 1787–1865)
Vocabulariui român-nemţesc, conpus şi înavuţit cu mai multe mii de cuvinte nou introduse, şi încetăţenite în limba română , Sibiu 1868
Dicţionar român-german şi german-român. Dictionary of the Romanian and German languages , Sibiu 1868–1886, 1888, 1900–1905
- I. Româno-german , 1868, 1888, 1900, 1910
- II. German-roman , Sibiu 1886, 1888, 1905

literature

M. Păcurariu: Popovici Barcianu, Sava. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 199 f. (Direct links on p. 199 , p. 200 ).
Paul Miron, 189. Romanian Lexicography, in: Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Second part of volume , ed. by Franz Josef Hausmann, Oskar Reichmann, Herbert Ernst Wiegand and Ladislav Zgusta, Berlin. New York 1990, p. 1883

Web links

http://biserica.org/WhosWho/DTR/B/SavaBarcianuPopovici.html (entry in: Dicţionarul Teologilor Români , Romanian)
http://mek.oszk.hu/03600/03630/html/b/b01032.htm (entry in: Szinnyei József, Magyar írók élete és munkái, Hungarian)

personal data
SURNAME	Barcianu-Popovici, Sava
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Popovici Barcianu, Sava; Barcianu, Sabbas Popovici; Popovich, Sava
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Romanian cleric, Romanist, Romanianist, Germanist, grammarian and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH	1814
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rășinari
DATE OF DEATH	March 24, 1879
Place of death	Rășinari