Petru Maior și reducerea sărăciei prin cărțile de popularizare a științei editate de iluministul român la Buda
Petru Maior and Poverty Reduction through Books Popularizing Science Published by the Romanian Enlightenment Scholar in Buda

Summary/Abstract: The present study analyses the status and quality of publisher of the Enlightenment scholar Petru Maior, and the way in which he became involved and adapted to this new profession entered at the Printing House of the University of Buda (1809-1821). Maior’s activity involved translating works, clarifying and accommodating the message for the target audience, and fully verifying the correctness of the texts. The publisher also decided on the opportunity to print a certain work in the Romanian culture, as well as on the motivation for publishing it for the community to which it was addressed.Enlightenment scholar Petru Maior found several means to apply Kant’s principle Sapere aude to the Romanian realities (sermons, books of teachings), and the present study analyses precisely the content and topicality of his activity of printing books of wisdom to combat poverty and disease. At the beginning of the 19th century, these books were among the few means available to an intellectual to maximise the chances of modernising the Romanian society in Transylvania.

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