Dimitrie Cantemir
Dimitrie Cantemir

Summary/Abstract: The study presents the personality and work of the scholar and prince Dimitrie Cantemir, 300 years after his death. As a scholar Dimitrie Cantemir (1673-1723) was a prolific encyclopedist, ethnographer, geographer, philosopher, historian, linguist, musicologist and composer. His genius greatly manifested itself in the field of historical science, a field in which he left us a number of immortal fundamental works. Most of them are related to national history, and others to universal history. Dimitrie Cantemir’s great interest in the history of his people, of the Turkish Empire and of many neighboring peoples from ancient times to his era was a strong incentive in the elaboration of his historical work. In order to better understand the contribution of Dimitrie Cantemir’s work to Romanian culture, we must take into consideration the backgrounds of the era when he recorded the first attempts to highlight the literary skills of his mother tongue.

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