Micurà de Rü, born Nikolaus Bacher (San Cassiano, Badia, December 4, 1789 –

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, March 29, 1847), was an

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-speaking

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best known for his writings on the Ladin language.

Biography

He was born as Nikolaus Bacher in vila Rü in San Ćiascian, now part of Badia,

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. Coming from a

family, the last of four children, he studied theology and was ordinated as a priest in

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on August 28, 1814. He was a military chaplain and teacher in the Scuola Militare in Milan. He was also a lecturer of Italian in the

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. Strongly connected to his origins, he wrote, in 1833, the first grammar book of the Ladin language, ''Versuch einer deütsch-ladinischen Sprachlehre'' ("An attempt at compiling a German-Ladin Grammar"), written with an intention to unify the different dialects of the

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. He signed his name as "Micurà de Rü", "Micurà" being the Ladin pronunciation of Nikolaus or Nicolò, and Rü being his birth place. The Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü, the institute founded in 1976 in San Martin de Tor for the study, cultivation, and promotion of the Ladin language, history and culture is named after him.

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