Timotei Cipariu, personalitate enciclopedică a culturii româneşti
Timotei Cipariu - an enciclopedist of the Romanian culture

Summary/Abstract: Timotei Cipariu has asserted himself within the Romanian cultural background as a spirit whose dimensions exceeded the bounds of the town where he developed himself and acted, of the United Church and of the Romanian people, whose ideals he has pursued while having in mind the european ones too. The amplitude of his personality and of his encyclopedic work arouses a double feeling in the heart of the researcher who approaches Cipariu: a feeling of inhibition and at the same time of profound admiration, resembling perhaps the feeling that the above-mentioned experienced when he would speak about the town of Blaj and its schools. Cipariu himself as an exponential product of those schools, proved himself to be that fruit-bearing land, who, by means of innate talent, hard work and thorough research and influenced by the love of his nation, bore fruit hundredfold. That fruit materialized in his works that together with his entire activity, played a great part in the cultural and spiritual flourishing of our nation.Our aim is to present that fruit or harvest that equally highlights both the work and the activity and their author. Therefore the purpose of our endeavour is to point out the basic features of Timotei Cipariu’s encyclopedic personality as they are outlined by the different fields of science to which he brought his contribution, at the same time having in mind the results achieved by the researchers so far.Timotei Cipariu’s achievements in different fields starting with linguistics and philology and up to history, theology, journalism, culture and politics, make up the portrait of a scholar of encyclopedic dimensions. At the same time his contribution in the differents fields of the Romanian literature: poetry, memoirs, oratory, journalism, together with history, literary theory and criticism, completes his portrait. Beyond these main fields of recognition, there are also others, such as: folklorism, numismatics, natural sciences, translating and so on.

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