Ienăchiţă Văcărescu

Ienachita Vacarescu (* 1740, † July 11, 1797 ) was a Wallachian diplomat, poet, historian, linguist and Rumänist.

Life and work

Vacarescu came from a boyar in the Principality of Wallachia. He was very learned and multilingual, poems, a history of the Ottoman Empire, a small Turkish- Romanian Dictionary ( 1790 ) and in 1787 by Italian models, wrote one of the first grammars of Romanian, which was used by Ion Heliade - Rădulescu for his own grammar of 1828.

In Targoviste is a school named in Bucharest a street after him.

Works

• Observaţii sau Bagari de Seama asupra regulilor şi orânduielilor gramaticii romanesti ( "Observations on the rules and structures of the Romanian grammar " ), Râmnicu Sarat 1787
• Opere, ed. Cornel Cîrstoiu, Bucharest 1985
• Istoria Othomanicească, ed. Gabriel Strempel, Bucharest 2001