Samuil Micu-Klein - Wikipedia Samuil Micu-Klein From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Samuil Micu Klein Samuil Micu Klein (September 1745 – 13 May 1806) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic theologian, historian, philologist and philosopher, a member of the Enlightenment-era movement of Transylvanian School (Şcoala Ardeleană). Contents 1 Biography 2 Notes 3 References 4 Further reading 5 External links Biography[edit] Born as Maniu Micu in the Transylvanian village of Sadu, in the Austrian Empire (now in Sibiu County, Romania), he was the son of a Greek-Catholic protopope and the nephew of bishop Inocenţiu Micu-Klein.[1] He began to study at the Seminary of Blaj and he joined the Order of Saint Basil in 1762. Micu received a scholarship in 1762 and began studying at the Catholic Pázmáneum University of Vienna. There is little known about his life in Vienna, but it is known he was attracted to science, studying experimental physics, mechanics and mathematics, in addition to theology and philosophy.[1] In 1772, returning to Blaj to teach ethics and mathematics at the Seminary, Klein met and befriended bishop Grigorie Maior, whom he accompanied in visits throughout his diocese, trying to win converts to Greek-Catholicism. These trips proved to be useful in his study of the Romanian language, especially of the language spoken by the peasants, gathering materials for a future grammar. Klein was also interested in Romanian folklore, his writings being one of the earliest works on it.[2] In 1774, he finished writing a work of history named De ortu progressu conversione valachorum episcopis item archiepiscopis et metropolitis eorum, which talked about the Roman origins of the Romanians and the origins of their faith in the Roman Christian Church in ancient Dacia. Apparently, his goal was to make the bishopric become a metropolis, so it would no longer belong to the Archdiocese of Esztergom.[3] He went to Vienna in 1779 to become a prefect of studies at the Saint Barbara College, he published in 1780, together with Gheorghe Sincai the first Romanian grammar, Elementa linguae daco-romanae sive valachicae.[3] Klein returned to Blaj, and between 1782 and 1804, he was very productive both in his translations and in writing original works:[4] translation of textbooks for Blaj schools translation of over seventy-seven titles and 7,500 pages from the Church Fathers a history of Romania entitled Scurtă cunoştinţă a istoriei Românilor (1792) a translation of The Granite Matrix (1794) a translation of the bible (Biblia de la Blaj, 1795) a four-volume Latin draft of Istoria, lucrurile şi întâmplările Românilor (1800, though only an 1805 translation to Romanian survived) Klein moved to Buda in 1804 to become the editor at the University of Buda press for the Romanian-language books, hoping that this would allow him to publish his historical works, a project which did not materialise because of his death just two years later.[5] Notes[edit] ^ a b Hitchins, p. 667. ^ Hitchins, p. 667-668. ^ a b Hitchins, p. 668. ^ Hitchins, p. 668-669 ^ Hitchins, p. 669. References[edit] Keith Hitchins, "Samuel Clain and the Rumanian Enlightenment in Transylvania", Slavic Review, Vol. 23, No. 4. (Dec., 1964), pp. 660–675. Further reading[edit] Pompiliu Teodor, Sub semnul luminilor. Samuil Micu Editura Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj, 2000, 507 p. External links[edit] Wikimedia Commons has media related to Samuil Micu-Klein. Authority control BNF: cb11644654q (data) GND: 120738244 ISNI: 0000 0001 1833 2837 LCCN: n81142052 NKC: jn20020206003 NLI: 000093142 NTA: 070181055 PLWABN: 9810657772105606 SUDOC: 100547656 VIAF: 51683588 WorldCat Identities: lccn-n81142052 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Samuil_Micu-Klein&oldid=997729564" Categories: 1745 births 1806 deaths 18th-century Romanian people Romanians in Hungary Romanian folklorists Romanian historians Romanian philologists Romanian schoolteachers Romanian theologians Romanian Greek-Catholic clergy Translators of the Bible into Romanian Romanian translators Age of Enlightenment Transylvanian School People from Sibiu County Order of Saint Basil the Great 18th-century translators Hidden categories: Commons category link is on Wikidata Wikipedia articles with BNF identifiers Wikipedia articles with GND identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with NKC identifiers Wikipedia articles with NLI identifiers Wikipedia articles with NTA identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers Wikipedia articles with VIAF identifiers Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers Navigation menu Personal tools Not logged in Talk Contributions Create account Log in Namespaces Article Talk Variants Views Read Edit View history More Search Navigation Main page Contents Current events Random article About Wikipedia Contact us Donate Contribute Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file Tools What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages Permanent link Page information Cite this page Wikidata item Print/export Download as PDF Printable version In other projects Wikimedia Commons Languages Български Deutsch Français Latina Magyar مصرى Polski Română Русский Українська Edit links This page was last edited on 1 January 2021, at 23:28 (UTC). 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