Dionisie Fotino (Greek: Dionysios Foteinos,[1] 1769–1821)[2] was a Wallachian historian and high ranking civil servant of Greek origin.[3]
Born in Patras, Fotinos (Photeinos, Gr. Φωτεινός ) hailed from the so-called Phanariote families within the Ottoman Empire. He moved to Wallachia in 1804.[2]
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.[4]
References
- ↑ Ioannis Liakos; Sevi Mazera (2014). "Dionysios Foteinos: a Greek melourgos in Romania. Nektarios Vlachos: a Romanian melourgos on Mount Athos.Their enchanted Doxologies". Artes. Journal of Musicology. 14: 20–32.
- 1 2 "Fotino, Dionisie". www.dex.md.
- ↑ Boia 2001, p. 86.
- ↑ Georgescu 1991, p. 116.
Sources
- Boia, Lucian (2001). History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness (Translated by James Christian Brown). Central European University Press. ISBN 963-9116-96-3.
- Georgescu, Vlad (1991). The Romanians: A History. Ohio State University Press. ISBN 0-8142-0511-9.
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