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Dimitrie Cantemir

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Dimitrie Cantemir Writer, humanistic, encyclopedist

Born on October 26, 1673 in the department from Falciu, currently the department of Vaslui, in Romania
Died on August 21, 1723 with Harkov in Russia.
Its skin is now in church “Trei Ierarhi” of Iasi.
Dimitrie Cantemir - BUCOVINE.com

Reigning prince of Moldavia between March 29, 1693-April 18, 1693 and November 1710- July 16, 1711)

Dimitrie Cantemir is most important humanistic Rumanian of the feudal period of the Rumanian Principalities.
This prince scholar who lived a very interesting and atypical life, it is made noticed in varied fields: history, geography, philosophy, music, social novel, ethnography and it took part in the theological debates of its century.

Wire an illiterate prince reigning, faithful to the Ottoman policy, subjected to large the boyar's, often testing humiliations, (Constantin Cantemir, reigning prince of Moldavia between June 25, 1685 and March 27, 1693) and of Anna Bantas, educated woman, Moldavian an aristocrat family.

His father transmitted has his son junior ambition to place himself by his culture at the top of those which had humiliated.

The youth of Dimitrie Cantemir runs out under the sign a rich and varied cultural experiment.
It is access apprentice of Ieremia Cacavelas, a polyglot Greek who had made his studies in Germany and which transmitted to him the taste for the literature of antiquity, which initiated in the theological problems and which also directed in spirit of the ideas of Western humanism of time.

Sent to Constantinople like hostage of its father, (as the habits of Empire required with time) Dimitrie Cantemir benefited from this long stay for to inform.

The capital of Ottoman Empire was the crossroads of the ideas which came from occident and of the ideas which came from Orient. The spiritual life of the capital was dominated by Greek Academy of patriarchy, subsidiary of University of Padoue.

Cantemir learned Arab, it Greek, the Persan one and by interlude of these languages it knew the great authors and the popular creation of the world Eastern. In Constantinople Cantemir knew the Ambassador of Louis XIV, Ambassador of Russia other diplomats of L time.

He married the girl of Serban Cantacuzino, Casandra and had 6 children among whom the next Russian prince, writer Antioh Dimitrievici Cantemir (1708 -1744) which tightened Ambassador of Russia in England.

After the death of Casandra, Cantemir married Anastasia Trubetkoi with which they had a girl.

During its stay in Constantinople it took part with armed Turkish in the battle with Zenta 1697, while thus attending the disastrous defeat of armed Turkish, the sign of decline of the Ottoman forces.

In 1710 he becomes reigning prince of Moldavia. Pierre le Grand - BUCOVINE.com

In this moment, it moves towards an alliance with the Tsar of Russia, Pierre the great.
The researchers and the historians affirm that Dimitrie Cantemir which presented the decline of Ottoman Empire, expressed its interest for the release of the Rumanian countries of Turkish occupation.

On April 13, 1711 with knowledge of the Moldavian boyar's, he concludes a treaty Pierre the Large one in Lutk. In the 17 articles written by Cantemir, this one stipulated the release of Turkish Moldavia of the domination, a princely mode or all passed in the hands of the reigning prince.

In the battle of Stanilesti (on the river of Prut) of 11 July 14, 1711 forwarding Russian was a failure. The Russian defeat obliges the Tsar to take along Dimitrie Cantemir to Russia with promise to the come moment, the plan tightened actually put.

Cantemir remains in Russia 12 years; with its death, in 1923. It tightened reigning prince never again.

But for this period he wrote a monumental, was elected member of Academy of Science of Berlin. He was named by the Tsar, senator, political adviser.

A plate with entered of the Library Genevieve Saint of Paris, mentions her name beside the other famous scientists like Leibnitz, Newton and Fénelon.

Its books published:

“Descriptio Moldaviae”

Images of crowned science one cannot describe “Metaphysics”

The Couch, a book of broader reflexions, or the solutions are theological, that does not exclude from the arguments drawn from the thoughts from certain pagan philosophers like the stoical ones for example;

Text of Cleopatra Lorintiu

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