Sextil Iosif Pușcariu was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian linguist and philologist, also known for his involvement in administrative and party politics. A native of Brașov educated in France and Ger
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Students working at the Museum of the Romanian Language, 1930
Bust in Cluj-Napoca, on the grounds of the institute he founded
Sămănătorul or Semănătorul was a literary and political magazine published in Romania between 1901 and 1910. Founded by poets Alexandru Vlahuță and George Coșbuc, it is primarily remembered as a tribu
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…a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1906, becoming a titular member in 1914. He also became one of several Transylvanian affiliates of Sămănătorul, the Romanian traditionalist and ethnic nationalist review in Bucharest, finding his ideas on linguistics and history challenged by Densusianu and Ion…
Sămănătorul issue, cover dated October 6, 1907
Ludovic Bassarab's La treierat ("Threshing"), showing peasants in Romanian dress around a combine harvester
Front page of Sămănătorul under Aurel Popovici's direction, December 1909 issue
A peasant household near Bistriţa Monastery, ca. 1906