Ion Budai-Deleanu

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Ion Budai-Deleanu
Epic poem
Literary movementHumanism
ParentsSolomon Budai

Ion Budai-Deleanu (January 6, 1760 – August 24, 1820)[1] was a Romanian scholar, philologist, historian, poet, and a representative of the Transylvanian School.

Book cover of Tsiganiada ou le Campement des Tsiganes

He was born in Csigmó (today Cigmău), a village in the town of Algyógy (today Geoagiu, Hunedoara County), located in the western part of Transylvania.[2] Budai-Deleanu studied at the College of Saint Barbara in Vienna.[1] After completing his doctorate at the University of Erlau, he settled in Lemberg (now Lviv in Ukraine).[3] He finished an epic poem, entitled Țiganiada ("Gypsy Epic"), about a band of gypsies that fought alongside the army of Vlad the Impaler, the medieval ruler of Wallachia.[1]

He was one of the first proponents of the idea of the

Grand Principality of Transylvania.[5]

According to Budai-Deleanu, the Dacians did not have a role in the ethnogenesis of the Romanian people.[6] He thought that the Dacians were the ancestors of the Poles.[6]

He promoted the purification of the Romanian language from loanwords, proposing that only borrowings from Italian and French should be permitted.[7] He also strove for the replacement of the Cyrillic script with the Latin alphabet.[7]

Budai-Deleanu died in Lemberg in 1820, aged 60.

Streets în Arad, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Oradea, Sibiu, and Timișoara are named after him.

References

  1. ^ a b c Florescu & McNally 1989, p. 216.
  2. ^ Georgescu 1991, p. 116.
  3. ^ Florescu & McNally 1989, p. 217.
  4. ^ Georgescu 1991, pp. 165–166.
  5. ^ Georgescu 1991, pp. 117, 166.
  6. ^ a b Boia 1997, p. 86.
  7. ^ a b Georgescu 1991, p. 120.

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  • Georgescu, Vlad (1991). The Romanians: A History. .