GEOGRAPHICAL VALENCES OF THE NOTES BELONGING TO THE BENEDICTINE MONK RAYMUND NETZHAMMER, IN THE WORK “FROM ROMANIA: INCURSIONS THROUGH THIS COUNTRY AND ITS HISTORY”
AL. PĂCURAR1
1Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Geography, 400006, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, e-mail: sandu@geografie.ubbcluj.ro
ABSTRACT. – Geographical Valences of the Notes Belonging to the Benedictine Monk Raymund Netzhammer, in the Work “From Romania: Incursions through this Country and its History”. Geographical valences of the notes belonging to the Benedictine monk Raymund Netzhammer, in the work “From Romania: Incursions through this Country and its History”). Appointed priest-professor at Bucharest and then Catholic Archbishop of Bucharest, the Benedictine priest Raymund Netzhammer undertakes numerous travels through Romania, a country which he describes in detail in his notes. He ends up by loving Romania as his second homeland, promoting with assiduousness its image, a country in full development, emphasizing its economic potential, its Latinity, its ancestral traditions etc. His descriptions highlight his spirit of observation and of geographic synthesis, curiosity concerning science, his qualities as a writer, as well as his vast knowledge of history, numismatics, topography – cartography. The publishing, at the beginning of the 20th century, in the German speaking countries, of his travel notes through Romania, awakened the interest of the public for our country, a beneficial fact for the promotion of its image. The study intends to detect the major themes of the complex geographical descriptions achieved by Archbishop Raymund Netzhammer.
Keywords: Transylvania, the Carpathians, Dobrudja, the Danube, monasteries, Maria Einsiedeln, grains, woods.
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