Referiri documentare la zestrea folclorică a zonei Codru – Maramureş
Documentary references to the folk heritage of the Forests Area - Maramureş

Summary/Abstract: Due to the usually unfavorable historical circumstances, that characterized the Forests Area over time, unlike other Romanian provinces folklore, the Forests Area folklore began to be collected rather late. The first concerns in this respect were noticed only in the nineteenth century and we owe them to the scholar Emil Bran (1864-1941). Professor at the Seminary of Gherla for two years, between years 1886-1888, then priest in the villages Văguşel, Biuşa, Băiţa de sub Codru and Dragomireşti, Emil Bran led more than a decade Astra's Viseu- Iza Tuition. His name is linked to the first collection of folklore from the villages of the Forests Area. Ever since his studies period in Gherla, he possessed a relatively rich material, preserved in a manuscript book belonging to his son, Gheorghe Bran. At the harnessing of the folklore dowry belonging to the Forests Zone have contributed a series of exhausting lovers of the ancient Land of Forests, among which the following: Sabo Simion, Vasile Vaida, teacher Pompei Hossu-Longin from Tămăşeşti, writer Peter Dulfu from Tohat, Professor Dumitru Pop from Băseşti, Vasile Doniga, Professor and ethnologist Pamfil Bilţiu, Augustin Mocanu, Traian Rus and others. Their untiring zeal in the field of Forests folklore and spirituality deserves our admiration and gratitude, of those who live at the foot of Forests.

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