Vasile Burlă

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Burlă in 1873

Vasile Burlă (February 9, 1840–January 9, 1905) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian philologist.

Born in

Iași University. Late in life, he was a school inspector. Burlă had to retire in 1901; he died four years later, and was buried at Eternitatea cemetery. His textbooks include Gramatica limbei grecești clasice (1873), Carte de exerciții latine (1888) and Gramatica limbei grecești, prelucrare după Curtius (1895).[1]

Burlă joined Junimea society in 1870; he was considered a leading member and an important collaborator of its magazine, Convorbiri Literare, where he published a number of articles on philology, as well as polemics. Together with Miron Pompiliu and Pavel Paicu, he formed part of a "Latinist" group from Transylvania and Bukovina that had been steeped in the Latin language as the basis of its cultural outlook. He was considered a specialist in the classical languages by his colleagues, and nicknamed the philologist of Junimea. After the departure for Bucharest of society patron Titu Maiorescu, Burlă formed part of a circle (together with Ștefan Vârgolici, Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol, Alexandru Lambrior and Pompiliu) that met at the home of Iacob Negruzzi in order to simplify the orthographical standards of 1865. Burlă published his articles on linguistics as Studii filologice (1880). He became notorious for a running debate with Junimea rival Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu on the etymology of the word rață ("duck").[1]

Burlă married

Matilda Cugler in 1872. After the couple divorced, he married Ecaterina Mavrogheni, considerably raising his social and financial standing.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b Ionel Maftei, Personalități ieșene, vol. II, pp. 58-59. Comitetul de cultură și educație socialistă al județului Iași, 1975
  2. ISBN 978-973-790-755-4
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