Lazăr Șăineanu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Lazăr Șăineanu

Romania philologist, linguist, folklorist and cultural historian

Date of Birth: 06-May-1859

Place of Birth: Ploiești, Prahova County, Romania

Date of Death: 11-May-1934

Profession: writer, historian, biographer, romanist, literary critic, anthropologist, children's writer, philologist, literary historian, linguist, lexicographer, collector of fairy tales

Nationality: France, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Lazăr Șăineanu

  • Lazar ?aineanu (Romanian pronunciation: ['laz?r ??i'ne?anu], also spelled ?eineanu, born Eliezer Schein; Francisized Lazare Sainéan, French pronunciation: ?[laza? sa.ine.?~], or Sainéanu; April 23, 1859 – May 11, 1934) was a Romanian-born philologist, linguist, folklorist and cultural historian.
  • A specialist in Oriental and Romance studies, as well as a Germanist, he was primarily known for his contribution to Yiddish and Romanian philology, his work in evolutionary linguistics, and his activity as a literary and philological comparatist.
  • ?aineanu also had innovative contributions to the investigation and anthologizing of Romanian folklore, placed in relation to Balkan and East Central European traditions, as well as to the historical evolution of Romanian in a larger Balkan context, and was a celebrated early contributor to Romanian lexicography.
  • His main initiatives in these fields are a large corpus of collected fairy tales and the 1896 Dic?ionarul universal al limbii române ("The Universal Dictionary of the Romanian Language"), which have endured among the most popular Romanian scientific works. A member of the non-emancipated Jewish-Romanian community, Lazar ?aineanu stood for the Haskalah ideas, and opted in favor of Jewish assimilation into the Romanian mainstream.
  • His repeated requests for naturalization were eventually unsuccessful, but propelled him to the center of a political conflict which opposed the antisemitic current to the advocates of tolerance.
  • In 1901, ?aineanu and his family quit the Kingdom of Romania and resettled in France, where the scholar lived until his death.
  • Becoming known for his pioneering work to the study of Middle French and his investigations into the origins of argot, as well as for his critical essays on 16th century writer François Rabelais, he was a recipient of the Institut de France's Volney Prize for 1908.
  • The son in law of publisher Ralian Samitca, ?aineanu was survived by his brother Constantin, a noted lexicographer, journalist and polemicist.

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