Petru Maior sau spiritul polemic
Petru Maior or the polemical spirit

Summary/Abstract: The present article is an evocation of Petru Maior and his writing style. Along with the great representatives of the Transylvanian School, Samuil Micu, Gheorghe Şincai and Ioan Budai Deleanu, Petru Maior (1751-1821) is known as the one who illustrated the polemical spirit to the highest degree. The battles he fought concerned the origin of the Romanian language, our Latinity and continuity in Dacia, as he believed that our nation is the legitimate descendant of the “old Romans”. Defending this idea, he used the weapon of the pen, intervening, with well-chosen arguments, whenever a foreign historian dared to slander us or to deny our continuity.

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