Catastife de negustori din Ţara Românească:

by Gheorghe Lazăr

În volumul de faţă sunt publicate integral două catastife de cheltuieli şi venituri întocmite de doi importanți negustori din Țara Românească, oferind celor interesaţi informaţii interesante şi inedite nu numai asupra diverselor activităţi comerciale în care erau implicaţi, dar şi asupra mecanismelor vieţii economice din cea de-a doua jumătate a secolului al XVIII-lea şi prima jumătate a secolului al XIX-lea. Fiecare dintre aceste două documente este însoţit de un studiu introductiv în care sunt prezentate principalele aspecte şi informaţii din cuprinsul lor, oferind, totodată, o reconstituire a activităţii şi vieţii celor doi negustori.

Din cuprins: Notă asupra ediţiei; Studiu introductiv pentru catastiful lui Hagi Constantin Malache; Catastiful lui Hagi Constantin Malache; Studiu introductiv pentru catastiful lui Constantin Dumitriu; Catastiful lui Constantin Dumitriu; Glosar de termeni; Fotocopii

370 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2016

About the author

Gheorghe Lazăr was a Transylvanian, later Romanian scholar, the founder of the first Romanian language school in Bucharest, 1817.

A Habsburg Empire subject, Lazăr was born to a peasant family. He studied in Sibiu, Cluj, and Vienna, training in theology, but also interested in history and philosophy. The strong admiration he had for Napoleon I, as well as other radical opinions he expressed, prevented him from becoming a priest. He later had to flee for Wallachia, where he worked as a tutor and engineer, drawing admiration from boyar Constantin Bălăceanu, who was charged with the administration of schools throughout the Principality.

His school signified the break with a tradition of schooling in Greek (prevalent under Phanariote rule), and also marked a step towards secularism in education. Lazăr was one of the first wave of Romanian Transylvanian teachers to shape schooling in both Wallachia and Moldavia throughout the 19th century.