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August Treboniu Laurian (; 17 July 1810 – 25 February 1881) was a

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politician, historian and linguist. He was born in the village of Hochfeld, Principality of Transylvania,

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(today Fofeldea as part of

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). He was a participant in the 1848 revolution, an organizer of the Romanian school and one of the founding members of the

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. Laurian was a member of the

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, a mainly-Transylvanian movement in the Romanian culture which promoted the idea that Romanians are pure Romans, whose history was a continuation of the history of the Roman Empire.Boia p.87 His book on ''History of the Romanians'' began with the

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in 753 BC and after the demise of Rome, it continues with the history of the Romanians, with all dates being converted to the Roman system,

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. Thus, in his book it is written that Vladimirescu's rebellion occurred in the year 2574 AUC.Boia p.46–47 Because of this alleged continuity, he supported the purification of the

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by stripping it of non-Latin elements and attempting to bring it as close to Latin as possible. Between 1871 and 1876, Laurian collaborated with Ioan Massim for a two-volume Romanian language dictionary, commissioned by the Romanian Academy. The dictionary was stripped of non-Latin words, including neologisms as replacements for such words, which were supposed to be eliminated from the language. The dictionary was also written in an etymological spelling system, the result being an artificial language which only vaguely resembled Romanian and it provoked laughter, discrediting the Latinist school.

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Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions: August Treboniu Laurian

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Lucian Boia Lucian Boia (born 1 February 1944 in Bucharest) is a Romanian historian. He is mostly known for his debunking of historical myths about Romania, for purging mainstream Romanian history from the deformations due to ideological propaganda. I.e. as ...

, ''History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness'', Budapest: Central European University Press, 2001 {{DEFAULTSORT:Laurian, August Treboniu 1810 births 1881 deaths 19th-century Romanian people Romanian philologists Romanian revolutionaries Presidents of the Romanian Academy Founding members of the Romanian Academy Romanian Greek-Catholics People of the Revolutions of 1848 Romanian people in the Principality of Transylvania (1711–1867) Austrian Empire emigrants to Romania People from Sibiu County Burials at Bellu Cemetery 19th-century Romanian historians

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