Samuil Micu-Klein

Samuil Micu (* September 1745 in Sadu, † May 13 1806 in Buda ) was a Romanian philosopher, theologian, historian, linguist, grammarian, lexicographer and translator of the Transylvanian School.

Life and work

Life

Maniu Micu was the nephew of the bishop Inocenţiu Micu - Klein. He went to high school in Blaj, joined in 1762 the Order of Basilian, where he took the religious name Samuil, and studied from 1766 to 1772 in Vienna theology and philosophy. He taught at the high school and was in Blaj 1777-1783 Prefect on Barbareum, the Greek Catholic Seminary of St. Barbara's Church (Vienna), then ( until 1804 ) searchingly at the monastery in Blaj. Micu was one of the authors of the Supplex Libellus of 1791, in the ( vain) the political equality of the Transylvanian Romanians were required. In 1804 he went to Buda, to the university to monitor the pressure of the Romanian texts.

The grammarian

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

The Bible translator

Micu translated the Bible ( Septuagint and New Testament ) new into Romanian. He was the Şerban Cantacuzino before I. commissioned the Bucharest Bible of 1688 and probably the only 2005 printed manuscript of the Bible translation by Petru Pavel Aron ( Biblia Vulgata: Blaj 1760-1761, Bucharest 2005). His Blaj Bible was published in 1795 (also Saint Petersburg in 1819, Buzau 1854-1856 and Sibiu 1856-1858 ) and was printed in 2000 by the Vatican in Cyrillic script as a Bible to promote unity between the Catholic and Romanian Orthodox Church new.

The scholar

Micus thousand-page history of Romania was published only in 1995 from the posthumous manuscript. Important was his translation of the logic of Friedrich Christian Baumeister. He has published and left in manuscript many writings on philosophy, theology and church history and was stimulators and employees of the dictionary of Buda (1825 ).

Works (selection)

  • ( with Gheorghe Şincai ), Elementa linguae daco - Romanae immersive valachicae. Composita from Samuele small de SZAD, ord. S. Basilii M. collegio Graeci rite Catholicorum vindobonensi ad S. barbaram ephemerio: locupletata vero, et hunc in ordinem redacta a Georgio Gabriele Sinkai, eiusdem Ordinis, Vienna 1780 (100 pages); Buda 1805 (sole author: Gheorghe Şincai, 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
  • ( Translator ) Biblia, ADECA Dumnezeiasca Scriptura a Legii vechi şi a CEII NOAO, toate care s -au tălmăcit de limba pre elinească pre înţelesul limbii romanesti. Cu blagoslovenia Marii sale prealuminatului şi preasfinţitului Domnului domn Ioan Bob, vladica Fagarasului, Blaj, 1795; ed. Ioan Chindris and Eugen Pavel, Rome 2000
  • ( Translator ) Loghica Adeca Partea cea cuvântătoare a filosofiei, Buda 1799 ( Original: Friedrich Christian Baumeister, Elementa Philosophiae, Leipzig 1781)
  • (Employees) Lesicon Românescu - lătinescu - ungurescu - nemţescu quare de mai mulţi authorized, în cursul a trideci, şi mai multoru ani s'au lucrat seu Lexicon valachico - latino - hungarico -italiano quod pluribus a auctoribus decursu Triginta et Amplius annorum elaboratum est, Buda in 1825 ( Dictionary of Buda, partial pressure of the contribution of Micu. Dictionary valachico - latinum, edited by Galdi László, Budapest 1944)
  • Contributions to the geography and history of Galilee, Leipzig 1909; New posts [ ... ], Vienna 1923
  • Scrieri filozofice, ed. Pompiliu Teodor and Dumitru Ghiʂe, Bucharest 1966
  • ( with Gheorghe Petru Maior and Şincai ) Despre vechimea si continuitatea Romanilor, ed. by Dan Horia Mazilu and Anatol Ghermanschi, Bucharest 1989
  • Istoria Romanilor, ed. Ioan Chindris, 2 vols, Bucharest 1995
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