Dan Slușanschi (12 September 1943 – 22 July 2008) was a 20th century

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

classicist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

and specialist in

Indo-European linguistics Indo-European studies is a field of linguistics and an interdisciplinary field of study dealing with Indo-European languages, both current and extinct. The goal of those engaged in these studies is to amass information about the hypothetical pro ...

who made contributions in the fields of

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic peri ...

, Latin/Medieval

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

and

Persian Persian may refer to: * People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language ** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples ** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...

. He is known for his editions and translations of Dimitrie Cantemir's works.

Studies

Dan Slușanschi graduated in 1965 from the Faculty of Classical Philology of the University of Bucharest. He received his doctorate in classical and Indo-European philology in 1972. He was a professor at the University of Bucharest, where he taught Latin language syntax, Indo-European linguistics (language and mythology), history of

Sanskrit literature Sanskrit literature broadly comprises all literature in the Sanskrit language. This includes texts composed in the earliest attested descendant of the Proto-Indo-Aryan language known as Vedic Sanskrit, texts in Classical Sanskrit as well as s ...

, ancient Persian (history, civilization, language), history of the Latin language, Greek syntax, medieval and neo-Latin Latin, text criticism and ancient metrics. He was a visiting professor at the universities of

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, Liege,

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

Caen Caen (, ; nrf, Kaem) is a commune in northwestern France. It is the prefecture of the department of Calvados. The city proper has 105,512 inhabitants (), while its functional urban area has 470,000,Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu holds a school of classical and oriental languages, which bears the name: Dan Slusanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages. The main languages promoted by the school are: Latin, Ancient Greek,

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Biblical Hebrew Biblical Hebrew (, or , ), also called Classical Hebrew, is an archaic form of the Hebrew language, a language in the Canaanite branch of Semitic languages spoken by the Israelites in the area known as the Land of Israel, roughly west of ...

and

Old Slavonic Old Church Slavonic or Old Slavonic () was the first Slavic literary language. Historians credit the 9th-century Byzantine missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius with standardizing the language and using it in translating the Bible and other ...

. The school was founded by

Antoaneta Sabău Antoaneta Sabău (12 August 1982, Mangalia) is a Romanian classicist, translator and editor. Her main contribution are mainly in the field of medieval and translation studies. Studies Antoaneta Sabău studied classical languages at Bucharest U ...

and

Florin George Călian Florin George Călian is a Romanian historian of religion and philosophy. He is a researcher at the Institute for Ecumenical Research, Lucian Blaga University. Educational background Florin George Călian studied psychology, philosophy and cla ...

Publications

Editions

* Textele latine din anexa la L. Protopopescu, ''Contributii la istoria învatamîntului în Transilvania'', Craiova, 1966. * D. Cantemir, ''Historia Moldo-Vlachica and De antiquis et hodiernis Moldaviae nominibus'' (în Opere Complete, IX, 1), Bucuresti, Editura Academiei, 1983. * D. Cantemir, ''Encomia in authorem'', în V. Candea (ed.), ''Sistima religiei muhammedane'', Bucuresti, Editura Academiei, 1987 (Opere Complete, VIII, 2). * D. Cantemir, ''Vita Constantini Cantemyrii, Moldaviae Principis'', Bucuresti, Editura Academiei, 1996 (Opere Complete, VI, 1 - cu A. Pippidi si I. Campeanu). * Virgil, ''Aeneis'', Bucuresti, Paideia, 2000, 2 vols. (I. Editie critica) * D. Cantemir, ''Incrementorum & Decrementorum Aulae Othmanicae libri III'', editia critica princeps, Amarcord, 2001. * D. Cantemir, '' Descriptio Moldaviae'', editia critica princeps, Bucuresti, Anastasia, 2005. * D. Cantemir, ''Sacro-Sanctae Scientiae Indepingibilis Imago'', editie critica, Bucuresti, EUB, 2005.

Translations

* Dimitrie Cantemir, ''De antiquis et hodiernis Moldaviae nominibus; Historia Moldo-Vlachica'' Opere complete, Vol.IX, Partea I: De antiquis et hodiernis. Moldaviae nominibus, Prefața de

Virgil Cândea Publius Vergilius Maro (; traditional dates 15 October 7021 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: th ...

. Ediție critică, traducere, introducere, note și indici de Dan Slușanschi, Editura Academiei, București, 1983. * E. Benveniste, ''Vocabularul institutiilor indo-europene'', Bucuresti, Paideia, 1999, I; 2005, I-II. *''

Eneida ''Eneida'' ( uk, Енеїда, Ukrainian for "Aeneid") is a Ukrainian burlesque poem, written by Ivan Kotliarevsky in 1798. This mock-heroic poem is considered to be the first literary work published wholly in the modern Ukrainian language. Al ...

'' de Publius Vergilius Maro, Editura Paideia, București, 2000. *

Homer Homer (; grc, Ὅμηρος , ''Hómēros'') (born ) was a Greek poet who is credited as the author of the ''Iliad'' and the ''Odyssey'', two epic poems that are foundational works of ancient Greek literature. Homer is considered one of the ...

, ''

Iliad The ''Iliad'' (; grc, Ἰλιάς, Iliás, ; "a poem about Ilium") is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences. As with the ''Odysse ...

'', traducere de Dan Slușanschi, ilustrații de Mihail Coșulețu,

Editura Humanitas Humanitas ( ro, Editura Humanitas) is an independent Romanian publishing house, founded on February 1, 1990 (after the Romanian Revolution) in Bucharest by the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu, based on a state-owned publishing house, Editura Politi ...

, București, 2012, ISBN 978-973-50-3702-4 * Homer, ''

Odyssey The ''Odyssey'' (; grc, Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia, ) is one of two major Ancient Greek literature, ancient Greek Epic poetry, epic poems attributed to Homer. It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by moder ...

'', tradusă în hexametri de Dan Slușanschi și ilustrată de

Alexandru Rădvan Alexandru is the Romanian form of the name Alexander. Common diminutives are Alecu, Alex, and Sandu. Origin Etymologically, the name is derived from the Greek "Αλέξανδρος" (Aléxandros), meaning "defending men" or "protector of men", ...

, Editura Humanitas, București, 2012, ISBN 978-973-50-3701-7. * Dimitrie Cantemir, ''Istoria cresterilor si descresterilor Curtii Otomane'', prima traducere româneasca, Editura Paidea, 2008, 2010, 2012.

Bibliography

Dan Slusanschi – portret de clasicist
', edited by Ana-Maria Răducan and Florin George Călian
''Nicht jeder Spezialist ist auch ein Intellektueller''
Forscher Florin George Călian erzählt von Antoaneta Sabău, der Antike und Dan Slusanschi, by Klaus Philippi

References

External links

Dan Slușanschi School for Classical and Oriental Languages
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slusanschi, Dan 1943 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Romanian people 20th-century linguists Linguists from Romania Romanian writers in French Romanian schoolteachers Grammarians from Romania Grammarians of Latin Academic staff of the University of Bucharest University of Bucharest alumni