Gheorghe Asachi
Moldavian polymath (1788-1869) · Writers · Died at 81
Gheorghe Asachi was a Romanian prose writer, poet, painter, historian, dramatist, engineer, border maker, and translator. An Enlightenment-educated polymath and polyglot, he was one of the most influential people of his generation.
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Mount Vesuvius seen from Castellammare di Stabia, 1821 painting by Johan Christian Dahl
Portrait of a young Asachi, by Giovanni Schiavoni
Albina Românească issue no. 9, cover dated 1 February 1840
Asachi in old age (portrait originally printed in the first edition of his collected short stories)
Templul Iubirii ("The Temple of Love"), drawing by Gheorghe AsachiAbout this person
Asachi was a respected journalist and political figure, as well as active in technical fields such as civil engineering and pedagogy, and, for long, the civil servant charged with overseeing all Moldavian schools. Among his leading achievements were the issuing of Albina Românească, a highly influential magazine, and the creation of Academia Mihăileană, which replaced Greek-language education with teaching in Romanian. His literary works combined a taste for Classicism with Romantic tenets, while his version of the literary language relied on archaisms and borrowings from the Moldavian dialect.
