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The Romanian Academy is a cultural forum founded in Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
 in 1866. It covers the scientific, artistic and literary domains. The academy has 181 acting members who are elected for life.

According to its bylaws, the academy's main goals are the cultivation of Romanian language
Romanian language

Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
 and Romanian literature, the study of the national history of Romania
History of Romania

This article provides only a brief outline of each period of the History of Romania; details are presented in separate articles ....
 and research into major scientific domains. Some of the academy's fundamental projects are the Romanian language dictionary (Dictionarul explicativ al limbii romāne
Dictionarul explicativ al limbii romāne

File:W?rterbuch DEX 1998.JPGDictionarul explicativ al limbii rom?ne is the most important dictionary of the Romanian language, published by the Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy ....
), the dictionary of Romanian literature, and the treatise on the history of the Romanian people.

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The Romanian Academy is a cultural forum founded in Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
 in 1866. It covers the scientific, artistic and literary domains. The academy has 181 acting members who are elected for life.

According to its bylaws, the academy's main goals are the cultivation of Romanian language
Romanian language

Romanian or Daco-Romanian ; self-designation: limba rom?na, ) is a Romance languages spoken by around 24 to 28 million people, primarily in Romania and Moldova....
 and Romanian literature, the study of the national history of Romania
History of Romania

This article provides only a brief outline of each period of the History of Romania; details are presented in separate articles ....
 and research into major scientific domains. Some of the academy's fundamental projects are the Romanian language dictionary (Dictionarul explicativ al limbii romāne
Dictionarul explicativ al limbii romāne

File:W?rterbuch DEX 1998.JPGDictionarul explicativ al limbii rom?ne is the most important dictionary of the Romanian language, published by the Institute of Linguistics of the Romanian Academy ....
), the dictionary of Romanian literature, and the treatise on the history of the Romanian people.

History

On the initiative of C.A. Rosetti, the Academy was founded on April 1, 1866, as Societatea Literara Romāna. The founding members were Vasile Alecsandri
Vasile Alecsandri

Vasile Alecsandri, was a Romanian poet, playwright, politician, and diplomat. He collected Romanian folklore and was one of the principal animators of the 19th century movement for Romanian cultural identity and union of Moldavia and Wallachia....
, Vincentiu Babes
Vincentiu Babes

Vincentiu Babes was a Romanian writer. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.References...
, George Barit
George Barit

George Barit, often rendered as George Baritiu , was a Romanian historian, philologist, dramatist, and journalist, the founder of the Romanian language press in Transylvania....
, Ioan D. Caragiani
Ioan D. Caragiani

Ioan D. Caragiani was a Romanian folklorist and translator. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, Timotei Cipariu
Timotei Cipariu

Timotei Cipariu was a Romanian cleric and academic. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.References...
, Dimitrie Cozacovici
Dimitrie Cozacovici

Dimitrie Cozacovici was a Romanian historian. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, Ambrosiu Dimitrovici
Ambrosiu Dimitrovici

Ambrosiu Dimitrovici was a Romanian publisher. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, Stefan Gonata
Stefan Gonata

Stefan Gonata was a Romanian politician and agronomist. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, Alexandru Hājdeu
Alexandru Hājdeu

Alexandru H?jdeu was a Russian writer, who lived in Bessarabia.References...
, Ion Heliade Radulescu
Ion Heliade Radulescu

Ion Heliade Radulescu or Ion Heliade was a Wallachian-born Romanian academic, Romanticism and Classicism poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician....
 (the first President), Iosif Hodosiu
Iosif Hodosiu

Iosif Hodosiu was a Romanian historian, politician, lawyer, and publisher. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy....
, Alexandru Hurmuzaki
Alexandru Hurmuzaki

Alexandru Hurmuzaki was a Romanian politician and publisher. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, Nicolae Ionescu
Nicolae Ionescu

Nicolae Ionescu was a Romanian politician and publisher. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, August Treboniu Laurian, Titu Maiorescu
Titu Maiorescu

Titu Liviu Maiorescu was a Romanian literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Culture of Romania in the second half of the 19th century....
, I. C. Massim
I. C. Massim

I.C. Massim was a Romanian linguistics and a founding member of the Romanian Academy . According to Theodor Massim his great grand son, I. C. Massim as born Ion Floricel in the village of Maxineni, near the Danube port of Braila as the son of a country priest....
, Andrei Mocioni
Andrei Mocioni

Andrei Mocioni was a Romanian jurist and publisher. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, Gavriil Munteanu
Gavriil Munteanu

Gavriil Munteanu was a Romanian scientist and translator. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, Costache Negruzzi, Alexandru Roman
Alexandru Roman

Alexandru Roman was a Romanian publisher and academic. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, C. A. Rosetti
C. A. Rosetti

Constantin Alexandru Rosetti was a Romanian literary and political leader, born in Bucharest into a Phanariotes family.In 1845, Rosetti went to Paris, where he met Alphonse de Lamartine, the patron of the Society of Romanian Students in Paris....
, Ion G. Sbiera
Ion G. Sbiera

Ion G. Sbiera was a Romanian foklorist. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, Constantin Stamati
Constantin Stamati

Constantin Stamati was a Moldavian Romanian-language writer and translator.He settled in Chisinau, Bessarabia after the 1812 partition of Moldavia at the end of the Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812, but made his literary debut in Iasi....
, Ioan Strajescu
Ioan Strajescu

Ioan Strajescu was a Romanian politician. He was one of the founding members of the Romanian Academy.Reference...
, and Vasile Urechea-Alexandrescu. The name changed to Societatea Academica Romīna in 1867, and finally to Academia Romāna in 1879, during the reign of Prince, and (from 1881) King Carol I of independent Romania.

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