Dionisie Fotino

Wallachian historian

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.
^ ^a ^b "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.