Timotei Cipariu (1805-1887), scholar
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Timotei Cipariu (1805-1887) was a Romanian scholar.
Biography
Timotei Cipariu was a Romanian cleric and academic. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy and the father of Romanian philology and linguistics.
He was born in 1805 in Romania.
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.
Cipariu died in 1887.