Ecouri europene în discursul lui Ioan Budai-Deleanu
European Echoes in the Work of Ioan Budai-Deleanu

Summary/Abstract: Ioan Budai‑Deleanu’s historical and philological research is indisputably a new stage in modern Romanian culture, a bridge from the Enlightenment developed by the leaders of the Transylvanian School – Samuil Micu, Petru Maior, Gheorghe Sincai – to the romantic nationalism that flourished in Europe at the beginning of the 19th century, which remained in the collective consciousness as the century of nations. His representative writing, De originibus populorum Transylvaniae, illustrates a historian committed to national ideas and political militancy, connected to the ideational background of the time from which he claims to be. Like Micu, Sincai and Maior, who approached history from a unitary perspective, Ioan Budai‑Deleanu will try to achieve a unitary history of the Romanian people but, unlike these historians, he stands out by subject and, especially, by the historical – legal manner of approach: the origin of the people of Transylvania and of their languages.

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