{"id":3088,"date":"2010-06-07T07:41:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T07:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=3088"},"modified":"2022-09-27T08:51:51","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T07:51:51","slug":"densusianu-nicolae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/densusianu-nicolae\/","title":{"rendered":"Densusianu, Nicolae *"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nicolae<\/strong> <strong>D<\/strong><strong>ensusianu <\/strong><strong>(1846-1911) <\/strong>was a Romanian ethnologist and folklorist, although he was born in Transylvania, at the time <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Nicolae_Densusianu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-27457\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Nicolae_Densusianu.jpg\" alt=\"Nicolae_Densusianu\" width=\"200\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a>part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He claimed that ancient Dacia had been the centre of a widespread <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/pelasgians\/\">Pelasgian<\/a> Empire. His major work, published posthumously, <em>P<\/em><em>rehistoric <\/em><em>D<\/em><em>acia<\/em>, includes the suggestion that Atlantis had been located in Dacia, now <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/romania\/\">Romania<\/a>. The text of this extensive book, in English <sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">1597<\/a>]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+<\/span><\/strong><\/sup>, is available in its entirety on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>His excessive nationalism, popular during the communist regime, is now deemed unacceptable and his work discredited.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, interest in Densusianu and aspects of\u00a0his theories have seen a resurgence\u00a0in books from researchers such as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/bucurescu-adrian-n\/\">Adrian Bucurescu<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/furdui-alexandra\/\">Alexandra Furdui<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Densusianu\u2019s work has also been recently echoed in two books by the Serbian historian, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/ranko-jakovljevic\/\">Ranko Jakovljevic<\/a>, although he moves the focus further west from Romania to his own native Serbia.<\/p>\n<p><sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/d\/\">1597<\/a>]<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">+ <\/span><\/strong><\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/240014812\/Prehistoric-Dacia-Nicolae-Densusianu-1913\">https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/240014812\/Prehistoric-Dacia-Nicolae-Densusianu-1913<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0<strong>*<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nicolae Densusianu (1846-1911) was a Romanian ethnologist and folklorist, although he was born in Transylvania, at the time part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He claimed that ancient Dacia had been the centre of a widespread Pelasgian Empire. His major work, published posthumously, Prehistoric Dacia, includes the suggestion that Atlantis had been located in Dacia, now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4557,5849,4050,1745,1072,2367,2478,88],"class_list":["post-3088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-adrian-bucurescu","tag-alexandra-ioana-furdui","tag-dacia","tag-nicolae-densusianu","tag-pelasgians","tag-ranko-jakovljevic","tag-romania","tag-serbia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56472,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3088\/revisions\/56472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}