Abstract
The purpose of any specialist, regardless of the sphere approached, is to serve the aspirations of scientific and cultural development of his people. However, in the broad process of searching for scientific truth, the possibility seen by some scientists to achieve this goal is scientific controversy, often manifested in a harsh duel of words. This article aims at confronting some of the most representative figures of Romanian linguistics, a confrontation developed in the realm of ideas. Using weapons such as stinging irony, humor and sarcasm, Alexandru Philippide outlines a new hypostasis of the “Romanian specialist”, this time materialized in the person of Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu.
Highlights
Remarkable personality of Romanian culture, philologist and man of culture, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu is after Dimitrie Cantemir and Heliade Rădulescu, together with Maiorescu and Eminescu among the figures whose work overcame the grinding action of time
In the context of the existence of terms of Gothic origin in the Romanian lexicon, a theory founded by Hasdeu, more on account of intuition, Philippide builds in the pages of the Origini a true ironic discourse against him: “And Hasdeu in Istoria critică a româniloru, Bucuresci, 1875, p. 297, says: «earching everywhere in the preceding paragraphs and shaking all the strings of the Romanian language, we find no shadow of indisputable gosticism, at least in two eighths of a single word»
A researcher with a multilateral vocation, the author of Cuvente din bătrîni is one of the figures who dominated the past of Romanian culture, having valuable contributions in the field of philology, history, lexicography, etc
Summary
Remarkable personality of Romanian culture, philologist and man of culture, Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu is after Dimitrie Cantemir and Heliade Rădulescu, together with Maiorescu and Eminescu among the figures whose work overcame the grinding action of time. 8), endowed with a quintessentially polemical nature, “the writer and the scientist cannot create without confronting those around him” Believed that in the realm of science, controversy always offers two advantages: 1. 28), he enters into a confrontation in the realm of ideas with many of his contemporaries. Since “the demon of controversy has been a constant of the Hasdeean personality” Such a battle of words has Hasdeu with another important linguist of the time, Alexandru Philippide, a keen observer of his time, becoming, in his sense, a hypostasis of the “Romanian specialist”
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