Micurá de Rü
Micurà de Rü, born Nikolaus Bacher (San Cassiano, Badia, December 4, 1789 – Wilten, March 29, 1847), was an Austrian Ladin-speaking Catholic presbyter and linguist best known for his writings on the Ladin language.
Also recorded as Micurà de Rü
Micurá de Rü
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- Born
- 1789 · Badia.
- Died
- 1847 · Wilten.
- Occupation
- presbyter · writer · linguist · priest
- Languages
- German · Ladin
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He was born as Nikolaus Bacher in vila Rü in San Ćiascian, now part of Badia, South Tyrol. Coming from a Ladin family, the last of four children, he studied theology and was ordinated as a priest in Salzburg on August 28, 1814. He was a military chaplain and teacher in the Scuola Militare in Milan. He was also a lecturer of Italian in the University of Innsbruck. Strongly connected to his origins, he wrote, in 1833, the first grammar book of the Ladin language, Versuch einer deütsch-ladinischen Sprachlehre ("An attempt at compiling a German-Ladin Grammar"), written with an intention to unify the different dialects of the Valleys of South Tyrol. He signed his name as "Micurà de Rü", "Micurà" being the Ladin pronunciation of Nikolaus or Nicolò, and Rü being his birthplace. The Istitut Ladin Micurà de Rü, the institute founded in 1976 in San Martin de Tor for the study, cultivation, and promotion of the Ladin language, history and culture is named after him.
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Micurá de Rü (4 December 1789 – 29 March 1847) is described as a priest in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. Micurá de Rü was born in Sankt Kassian (4 December 1789) and died in Wilten (29 March 1847).
144 paintings from the "Ghialar" collection exposed at the Istitut Ladin Micura de Rü in San Martin de Tor.
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1789
Micurá de Rü born at Badia.
1847
Micurá de Rü died at Wilten.
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scholarly publication
- Ladinia XVII (1993), Istitut Ladin "Micurá de Rü", San Martin de Tur; 207 pagine; Ladinia XVIII (1994), ibidem; 344 pagine, Linguistica, 1996
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 1996
- Spunti di riflessione sullo sviluppo del ladino scritto nell’Ottocento. Da Micurá de Rü (1833), a Jan Matî Declara (1878) e Jan Batista Alton (1879), Von Salzburg über Ladinien und das Aostatal bis Sizilien Wo sich Geolinguistik, Dialektometrie und Soziolinguistik treffen, 2024
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2024
- Zwei unbekannte Briefe von Micurá de Rü / Nikolaus Bacher aus den Jahren 1836/37. Ein Nachtrag zu seiner Biographie, Ladinia, 2018
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2018
reference work
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q337669: Micurá de Rü
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- “Micurà de Rü”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
Ladinia XVII (1993), Istitut Ladin "Micurá de Rü", San Martin de Tur; 207 pagine; Ladinia XVIII (1994), ibidem; 344 pagine, Linguistica, 1996Crossref registry
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Zwei unbekannte Briefe von Micurá de Rü / Nikolaus Bacher aus den Jahren 1836/37. Ein Nachtrag zu seiner Biographie, Ladinia, 2018Crossref registry
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