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BOOK REVIEW
SIMION FLOREA MARIAN, BOTANICĂ POPORANĂ ROMÂNĂ; VOL. I – 699 PP; VOL. II- 711 PP; VOL III – 741 PP.


MILIAN GURĂU
„Vasile Alecsandri” University of Bacău, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology and Environmental Protection, Mărăşeşti Street no. 157, Bacau, Romania, e-mail: milian_gurau@yahoo.com

Issue:

SCSB, Number 1, Volume XXV

Section:

Volume 25, No. 1

Abstract:

ABOUT SIMION FLOREA MARIAN

(1847-1907)

He was born in Bukovina, at the time at which the province was under Austrian rule. Except for the first year, his classes were held in German. He had to go to schools in Ilişeşti (birth place), Suceava, Năsăud and Beiuş up to his 8th grade. He attended the Faculty of Orthodox Teology in Cernăuti. He described Romanian culture for 43 years using B. P. Haşdeu's ethnographic research method. Following his contribution to Romanian lexicography, he had been elected Academician at the age of 34. He left the Academy and the generations to come a total of 25 000 A4 written pages. He is acknowledged as the best Romanian folklorist. He has a long list of books and published works. We should mention that after he released the book Cromatica poporului roman, he received an award from the Romanian Academy and bought himself a big house in Suceava where he lived, currently housing which is now the museum „The Memorial and Documentary Fund S.F. Marian”. Out of all 520 articles in Botanica Poporana, he published only 54 during his lifetime, each article with its own bibliography. He managed to save from irreversible oblivion aspects of the Romanian culture which have been passed down throughout ages since the creation of the Romanian language up to the dawn of modern history.

Keywords:

book review, common plants, folk poems, folk songs, tales and references to magic, more than 4000 common names and archaic terms.

Code [ID]:

SCSB201601V25S01A0023 [0004587]

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