Dionisie Fotino
Dionisie Fotino (Dionysios Foteinos, 1769–1821) was a Wallachian historian and high ranking civil servant of Greek origin. Dionisie Fotino was born in Patras, Fotinos (Photeinos, Gr. Φωτεινός) hailed from the so-called Phanariote families within the Ottoman Empire. He moved to Wallachia in 1804.
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Dionisie Fotino
- Died
- 1821
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- historian · composer · poet · writer · painter
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Dionisie Fotino (Dionysios Foteinos, 1769–1821) was a Wallachian historian and high ranking civil servant of Greek origin. Dionisie Fotino was born in Patras, Fotinos (Photeinos, Gr. Φωτεινός) hailed from the so-called Phanariote families within the Ottoman Empire. He moved to Wallachia in 1804.
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Fotino was one of the first scholars to propose a Daco-Roman ancestry for the Romanians by stating, in his History of Old Dacia of 1818, that "the Romans and Dacians, crossbreeding, created a distinct, mixed people" in Dacia Traiana province.
Dionisie Fotino (1777–1821) was a historian, composer and poet.
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Dionisie Fotino was born at Patras.
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- 1.Marin Popescu-Spineni. Rumänien in seinen geographischen und kartographischen Quellen: vom Altertum bis an die Schwelle unseres Jahrhunderts. 1987. 3-447-02582-4.
- 2.Radu Alexandru. Dionisie Fotino.
- 3.A fost reeditat Noul Doxastar.
- 4.Nicolae Gheorghiţă. Byzantine Chant between Constantinople and the Danubian Principalities. Studies in Byzantine Musicology. 2010. 978-973-136-227-4.
- 5.Hymnology.
- 6.Nicolae Gheorghiţă. The Anastasimatarion of Dionysios Photeinos. 2002.
- 7.Ioannis Liakos Sevi Mazera. Dionysios Foteinos: a Greek melourgos in Romania. Nektarios Vlachos: a Romanian melourgos on Mount Athos.Their enchanted Doxologies. 2014. 2344-3871.
- 8.George Constantzos, Thomas Tamvakos, Athanasios Trikoupis. Hellenes Composer of Thrace. 2017. 978-960-89575-6-5.
- 9.Oliver Jens Schmitt. Herrschaft und Politik in Südosteuropa von 1300 bis 1800. 2021. 978-3-11-074439-2.
- 10.Vlad Georgescu. Istoria românilor de la origini pînă în zilele noastre. 1992. 973-28-0265-0.
- 11.Julia Chatzipanagioti-Sangmeister. Old Tunes - New Tones: (Re)defining the "Phanariot Verses" Of The Greek Enlightenment.
- 12.Vasile Grecu. Erotocritul lui Cornaro în literatura românească. 1920.
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