O carte de referinţă pentru romanişti: Chrestomaţie Română (1891) de Moses Gaster
A Reference Book for Romanists: Moses Gaster's Romanian Chrestomathy (1891)

Summary/Abstract: Moses Gaster's main work, Chrestomatie română, published in the summer of 1891 was postponed by a series of factors: difficult working conditions, the impressive volume of documents, Gaster's other preoccupations, the banishment from Romania, and the impediments recorded by the publishing house in Wien, F. A. Brockhaus. Gaster's major work, in which he invested ten years of his life, the Romanian chrestomathy and the glossary covering the period from the dawn of Romanian literature down to 1830, appeared just in time for the twenty-fifth jubilee of King Carol I since ascending to the throne. The book was very well recepted and the king presented him the award Bene Merenti, first class for "romanian literary and philological writings". The paper deals with the difficulties Moses Gaster had to cope with in order to finish his chrestomathy. Although the work enjoyed mostly favourable reviews, there was some destructive criticism from a couple of romanian scholars. Nevertheless, The Romanian chrestomathy, helped covering the lacunae felt by foreign researchers in the field of romanian historical linguistics. The scientific success of the book within the foreign romanists of the time is revealed by the rich correspondence between F. A. Brockhaus and Moses Gaster.

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