Scriitori, teologic și filosofi din Transilvania în Evul Mediu și în „Epoca Luminilor”
Romanian Writers, Theologers and Philosophers in Transylvania during the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment

Summary/Abstract: There are some undeniable merits of the representatives of Humanism and Enlightenment in Transylvania, who, through their writings and their cultural-scientific and educational activity came to be known and respected in the most important spiritual centers of Europe. Among humanists, we mention Nicolaus Olahus, who would correspond and collaborate with the famous Erasmus of Rotterdam. Regarding the Enlightenment movement, the special contribution of Transylvanian scholars is manifested continuously in all phases of this dynamic socialpolitical and cultural trend. Samuil Micu (Clain), Petru Maior, Gheorghe Şincai, Ion Budai Deleanu and other "pioneers" contributed through their books and their work to the awakening of the national conscience of the Romanians in Transylvania, to mobilize them in the struggle for political and social emancipation, and especially, to the development of the Romanian education. At the same time, these scholars played an overwhelming role in the evolution of important fields of knowledge, such as history, philosophy, theology, law, literature, linguistics, lexicography, etc. Therefore, their exaggerations regarding the stubborn endorsement of the purely Latin origin of the Romanian people and of the Romanian language can be considered today as mere mistakes and, therefore, pardonable, as compared to the extent of their social-political and cultural activity, their profound and unprecedented researches in some top fields of humanities.

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