Gheorghe Şincai cenzor la tipografia din Buda
Gheorghe Șincai Censor at the Printing House in Buda

Summary/Abstract: In 1779 the Empress Maria Theresia granted the Buda University Printing House the privilege to print academic books for Hungary. The printing house included among the books edited in Cyrillic alphabet, books for the Hungarian minorities (Serbs, Croats, Slovaks, or Romanian), church books, academic books, school books but also fiction and scientific works. To prevent the publication of those books that were hostile to political and confessional authorities several censors were hired from among the national minorities academic elite. The first Romanian censor was Ioan Onișor, hired in 1794 with an annuity of 500 florins, similar to his colleagues of different ethnicities. Among the censors one finds Samuil Micu, Gheorghe Șincai and Petru Maior. They have published part of their scientific works at Buda printing house at the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century.

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