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The life and the activity of bishop Vasile Moga (1774-1845) were briefly analysed in the Romanian historiography both because of the absence of some systematic researches on the archivist material existing in Romania and abroad and also due to the rich activity developed by his successor, the bishop and afterwards archbishop and metropolitan Andrei, baron of Şaguna. His figure was analysed after his contribution to the development of the Romanian education, to the improvement of the moral-religious life of the eparchy, to the national-political fight of the Transylvanian Romanians and less after his contributions to the institutional realities, the organization of the bishopric, the relation with the archpriestships and the eparchies, constituting a lack of the historiography that remains to be solved. We will aim through our study, based on the analysis of the Romanian writings dedicated to the life and the activity of bishop Vasile Moga, at capturing the main phases and research directions as well as its significations hoping that this modest study will focus the attention of the historians and theologians in order to make this honest hierarch, unduly marginalized come into prominence. The historiographical passages referring to bishop Vasile Moga‟s life and activity demonstrated the fact that over time he was an ,,aggrieved” of the historical writing compared to his successor, Andrei Şaguna.
NORDSCI. International Conference on Social Sciences, Conference Proceedings, 2019
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ON THE WORK OF IOAN MAIORESCU (1811-1864) AT THE CENTENNIAL OF HIS SON TITU MAIORESCU (1840-1917
Beyond a cultural personality the activity of Ioan Maiorescu has left its mark on education, social life and to a certain extent diplomacy in all three provinces Transylvania, Walachia and Moldavia before the union of Romania during the 19th century. Much reveered until the beginning of the 20th century today seems almost forgotten and neglected. Although his son Titu Maiorescu has encompassed the work of his father very little reference is made to the model Ioan Maiorescu’s work might have represented to him. References and writings on Ioan Maiorescu have diminished during the second half of the 20th century although the work of Titu Maiorescu has benefited of an increased attention as time passed though the policy of editing a complete set of his writings available in popular editions too still an ideal yet to be fullfilled. The puprose of this paper is to bring into the foreplan Ioan Maiorescu’s work as a reference model to the magnificent future work of his son Titu Maiorescu as a remarkable personality of the Romanian modern culture.
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By bringing to the readers’ attention an unpublished Ottoman era document in Romanian, issued in 1861 in Rabrovo, a village in the Vidin region, back then under Ottoman rule, the article tries to shed light on the wider historical and sociolinguistic context of the Romanian-speaking population south of the Danube in the 19th century. The document is a donation-adoption act by which a Romanian man gives one of his sons for adoption to his brother, who does not have heirs. The document is handwritten in Romanian, using Cyrillic script, signed by the chorbaji, mayor and eight witnesses, and stamped by the Turkish administrator. Though very short, it reveals several important facts about the Romanian-speaking population in Ottoman Bulgaria and its origin, the language used in communication and writing, family relations, etc. Coming from a family archive, this document of great emotional value for its owner, has also undisputable linguistic and historical significance.
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