Câteva manuale pentru educație și sănătate din prima jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea. Elemente de conținut
Some handbooks for education and health in the first half of the XIXth century. Content elements

Some handbooks for education and health in the first half of the XIXth century. Content elements

Summary/Abstract: As a rule, textbook has a didactic character, being destined to the education of a certain degree. However, there are textbooks which do not especially address a certain form of education, which are constituted as true works of synthesis for certain domains and address especially to the adults. After the end of the Phanariot reigns, in the 19th century a higher Romanian education developed gradually in the quest for modernization, education supported by teachers, cultural figures of the time, members of the Romanian Academy who elaborated diverse books for children and adults, depending on the necessity and expertise. The Western textbooks were used a lot, preeminently the French ones, which were translated into Romanian beginning with the fourth decade of the 19th century. This study tackles some handbooks for education and health, especially destined to the adults, printed at Bucharest and Iassy, books which are kept in the collections of „Gavrilă Simion” Eco-Museum Research Institute of Tulcea. The proposed books are the following ones, three of them translated from French writers and two original signed by the teachers of the first obstetrics schools in the Romanian Countries, Iosef Sporer and Anastasie Fătu: Jeanne-Louise Campan, Pentru educația copiilor (For the education of children), Bucharest, 1839; A. Delavigne, Manual de filosofie lucrat după programa Universității de la Paris din 1840 (Philosophy handbook), Bucharest, 1846; François-Vincent Raspail, Manualul sănetății sau Medicina și Farmacia domestice (The health handbook or The domestic Medicine and Pharmaceutics), Bucharest, 1852; Iosef Sporer, Meșteșugul moșării pentru învățătura moașelor la Institutul Maternității din București (The art of obstetrics for teaching of the midwives at the Maternity Institute of Bucharest), Bucharest, 1839; Anastasie Fătu, Manual pentru învățetura moașelor (Handbook for the midwifes’ education), Iassy, 1852. Well-systematized content, scientific rigour, complexity and speciality of the compound or translated works are underlined by the content, form and valuable elements of the presented handbooks. The handbooks arrived at the museum of Tulcea by transfer from the Romanian Academy Library, purchase from second-hand bookshops or donation.

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