PRIMELE GRAMATICI GRECEȘTI DIN TRANSILVANIA (JUMĂTATEA SECOLULUI AL XVI-LEA)

Abstract:

The study of Ancient Greek, natural counterpart of Latin in the bilingual education of the Classical word rediscovered by Renaissance Humanism, was introduced in Transylvania by Johannes Honterus and Valentin Wagner, in the central decades of the 16th Century. The Greek grammars produced by the two Renaissance scholars (first published in 1539 and in 1549) reveal intriguing connections not so much with similar schoolbooks produced in German area (and especially in Wittenberg, dominated by the figure of Philip Melanchthon), but with a specific Italian tradition of study, based on the grammars of Manuel Chrysoloras, followed by Aldo Manuzio and by some scholars from Vienna and Basel. The other Greek schoolbooks printed in Brașov during this period confirm the complexity of the intellectual connections that seem to distinguish the beginnings of Greek Renaissance in Transylvania.

Keywords:

study of Ancient Greek, Renaissance education in Transylvania.