The Library of the “Imperial – Royal Counselor” Ioan Budai-Deleanu
The review of Ioan Budai-Deleanu’s work sources could, in fact, highlight his intellectual profile: the strong mark of classical and humanities tradition, the broadened contemporary historiographical horizon with influences of Göttingen historical school and, also, the European works of the Enlightenment period.
Ioan Budai-Deleanu was a militant who used literacy as weapon and pursued a well-defined purpose: raising of Romanian people through culture. In his view, achieving this goal was proving the Roman origin of the Romanian people and its continuity in Dacia. Understanding the importance of the historical moment, Ioan Budai-Deleanu tried by all means to contribute to the work his contemporaries, Samuil Micu, Gheorghe Şincai and Petru Maior, were dedicated to.
Keywords: library, books, Roman origin, continuity in Dacia, sources, scholar
