Miron Costin
Miron Costin (March 30, 1633 – 1691) was a
Aron Vodă]) was meant to extend Grigore Ureche's narrative,[1]
covering events from 1594 to 1660. The Chronicles were first published in 1675.
He also wrote Istoria în versuri polone despre Ţara Moldovei şi Munteniei (Polish verse history of Moldavia and Wallachia), also known under the title Poema polonă (The Polish poem).
Life
Miron Costin was born as the son of a rich Moldavian
Jesuit College in Bar, then at Kamienec Podolski
.
He returned to Moldavia in 1653, and became a trainee of the country's treasury. Valued by the administration, he rose quickly, becoming Vornic in 1669 (i.e.: overseer of the Court, with several political responsibilities both inside the state and abroad).
In 1691 his relation with
Iaşi: both were executed in Roman
.
Works
- Viiaţa lumii 1672
- The translation of Origines et occasus Transsylvanorum (Lyon, 1667) by Laurențiu Toppeltin of Mediaș
- Letopiseţul Ţărâi Moldovei de la Aron Vodă încoace 1675 German translation
- Chronika ziem Moldawskich y Multanskich (Cronica țărilor Moldovei și Munteniei) (in Polish)
- Istoria în versuri polone despre Ţara Moldovei şi Munteniei (Poema polonă) 1684
- De neamul moldovenilor approx. 1687
External links
- Miron Costin: Grausame Zeiten in der Moldau, Styria 1980 Graz&Vienna&Cologne Link
Romanian Wikisource has original text related to this article:
References
- ^ Miron Costin: Grausame Zeiten in der Moldau Styria 1980 Graz/Vienna/cologne https://www.amazon.de/dp/B002975CP0
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