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Vasile Burlă
Vasile Burlă (February 9, 1840–January 9, 1905) was an
Imperial Austrian-born Romanian philologist.

Born in Opăițeni, a village in the Duchy of Bukovina that today is

part of Ukraine, he attended primary school in nearby Storojineț.
He then went to the gymnasium in the provincial capital
Czernowitz (Cernăuți), taking his degree at Beiuș in Crișana. He
attended the universities of Vienna and Graz, graduating in Greek
and Latin philology. In 1873, he settled at Iași, in the Romanian
Old Kingdom, and was named teacher of Greek and Latin at the
National College. He taught at the school for many years, and was
director for a period. His students included Nicolae Iorga and
Mihail Sadoveanu. In 1925, on the 20th anniversary of his death,
his former students dedicated a bronze bust in front of the school.
From 1880 to 1890, he taught at a girls' high school, and from
1898 to 1901 taught classics at the Boarding High School. From
1875 to 1876, he was substitute professor at Iași University. Late
Burlă in 1873
in life, he was a school inspector. Burlă had to retire in 1901; he
died four years later, and was buried at Eternitatea cemetery. His
textbooks include Gramatica limbei grecești clasice (1873), Carte
de exerciții latine (1888) and Gramatica limbei grecești, prelucrare după Curtius (1895).[1]

Burlă joined Junimea society in 1870; he was considered a leading member and an important
collaborator of its magazine, Convorbiri Literare, where he published a number of articles on
philology, as well as polemics. Together with Miron Pompiliu and Pavel Paicu, he formed part of a
"Latinist" group from Transylvania and Bukovina that had been steeped in the Latin language as the
basis of its cultural outlook. He was considered a specialist in the classical languages by his colleagues,
and nicknamed the philologist of Junimea. After the departure for Bucharest of society patron Titu
Maiorescu, Burlă formed part of a circle (together with Ștefan Vârgolici, Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol,
Alexandru Lambrior and Pompiliu) that met at the home of Iacob Negruzzi in order to simplify the
orthographical standards of 1865. Burlă published his articles on linguistics as Studii filologice
(1880). He became notorious for a running debate with Junimea rival Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu on
the etymology of the word rață ("duck").[1]

Burlă married Matilda Cugler in 1872. After the couple divorced, he married Ecaterina Mavrogheni,
considerably raising his social and financial standing.[2]

Notes
1. Ionel Maftei, Personalități ieșene, vol. II, pp. 58-59. Comitetul de cultură și educație socialistă al
județului Iași, 1975
2. Lucian Nastasă, Intelectualii și promovarea socială, p. 41, 110. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Limes, 2004.
ISBN 978-973-790-755-4

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