Petru Maior: Intellectual Itinerary: Blaj–Rome–Vienna

Petru Maior (1760–1821) is one of the great personalities of Romanian culture. The Romanians’ national consciousness based on the recovery of the Romanian people’s historical memory and the idea of the Romanian language’s Latin origin owe a lot to the great scholar. The itinerary of his education in Transylvania’s Catholic colleges, and his studies in Rome and Vienna allowed him to become acquainted with 18th century culture, the spirit of the time, integrating his work in the great cultural movement of the Enlightenment, inaugurating the Romanian cultural dialogue with Europe.