Timotei Cipariu (1805-1887), scholar

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Timotei Cipariu

Timotei Cipariu (1805-1887) was a Romanian scholar, cleric and academic, one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy and the father of Romanian philology and linguistics. He studied in Blaj [Romania], where he spent most of his life as professor of the local Gymnasium. ​Fluent in many languages ​(Greek, Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Syriac, Turkish, Persian, Spanish, Italian, German, English, Hungarian), Timothy Cipariu was the owner of one of the richest private library in Transylvania.

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