Gheorghe Șincai

Gheorghe Şincai ( born February 28, 1754 Şincai, Mureş county, † November 2, 1816 in Svinia ) was a Romanian theologian, historian and linguist from the Transylvanian School.

Life and work

Şincai visited schools and colleges in Targu Mures, Cluj - Napoca, Bistrita, Blaj, and ( after entering the monastery of the Basilian in Blaj ) from 1774 to 1779 in Rome, then in Vienna, where he met Samuil Micu. His multilingualism included Romanian, Greek, Latin, Hungarian, Italian, French and German. From 1784 to 1794 he was head of the Transylvanian Greek-Catholic school system, then threw himself but with the church leadership at Ioan Bob and was after imprisonment and acquittal until 1801 tutor to Count Daniel Vass of Szege in Svinia. From 1804 to 1806 he Monitored. Buda printing Romanian texts

Şincai belonged to the Transylvanian School, joined the historical research on the origin of the Romanians with language description and language planning of Romanian. Together with Samuil Micu Şincai wrote the first grammar of the Romanian ( Elementa 1780). It contained the evidence of the close of the Romanian to Latin and was written ( for reading through the enlightened Europe) in Latin.

In Romania, numerous streets and institutions bear the name Gheorghe Şincais.

Works

• ( Samuil Micu with ), Elementa linguae daco - Romanae immersive valachicae, Vienna 1780 (100 pages); Buda 1805 (sole author, 110 pages); ed. Mircea Zdrenghea, Cluj -Napoca 1980 ( with Romanian translation ); Processing German and Romanian: Ioan Piuariu -Molnar (ed.) German - Wallachian language teaching, Vienna 1788
• Hronica Romanilor, 3 vols, Buda in 1808; ed. Grigore Ghica Aleksandru, 3 vols, 1853-1854 Iasi, Bucharest 1886 ( historical work )
• Opere, ed. Florea Fugariu, Bucharest 1967-1973, 1978