Alexandru Hâjdeu
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Alexandru Hâjdeu | |
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Died | 9 November 1872 | (aged 60)
Known for | founding member of the Romanian Academy |
Children | Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu |
Alexandru Hâjdeu or Alexander Faddeevich Hizhdeu (Russian: Алекса́ндр Фадде́евич Хижде́у; 30 November 1811 – 9 November 1872) was a Russian Empire writer of Romanian descent, who lived in Bessarabia, now Moldova. He was the father of Romanian writer and philologist Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. Alexandru Hâjdeu was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.
Education
He studied at the Theological Seminary in
In 1842, he was "forced” to resign from the ephor position of the schools in the Hotin County. Then, he was employed as a teacher of French language and mathematics at the boys' school in Vinnytsia. In this period he wrote the study "The Problem of Our Time" which will be translated and published in Bucharest only in 1938. In 1860, in "History and Literature Note" appears his work Notiţă ("Note") on the work of Kantemir Voievod. In 1866, he was elected as founder member of the Romanian Philological Society.
The Bessarabian School
Hâjdeu made an important contribution to the unification of the Romanian Principalities, especially, through his speeches held in 1837 and 1840. His speech held in 1837 and then, published in 1838 in Brașov and in 1839 in Bucharest, was the cornerstone of the unification of the Romanian Principalities on January 24, 1859. By the letter Epistle to the Romanians (Published on January 2, 1859), Hâjdeu defines the key element of "Romanian Messianism", also called the "Bessarabian School", by which he proves the intelligent implication (and often decisive, as in 1918) of the Basarabians in unification process of the Romanian nation.
Gallery
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Alley of Classics, Chişinău