De la români pentru români, de la frați pentru frați
From Romanians to Romanians, from Brothers to Brothers

The Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and Culture of the Romanian People

Author(s): Ioana Nistor
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Trivent Publishing
Keywords: Transylvania; ASTRA; culture; progress; freedom; emancipation
Summary/Abstract: ‘The Transylvanian Association for Romanian Literature and Culture of the Romanian People’ was established in 1861, Sibiu. The Association had a remarkable activity on cultural, social, and economic grounds for the emancipation of the Romanian people oppressed by the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Its main objective was the cultural progress, by unifying the literary Romanian language and spelling, cultural conferences and symposiums, scholarships for the Romanian students, the establishment of the Association’s Library in Sibiu, printing books, editing the first Romanian Encyclopaedia.

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