Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca
Romanian historian and philologist
Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca (3 October 1941 – 7 April 2017; Aromanian: Nicolae Sherban Tanashoca) was a Romanian historian and philologist. An ethnic Aromanian, he specialized in the study of classical philology, Byzantine and Ottoman studies and cultures of the Balkans, including the Aromanians.
Biography
Nicolae Șerban Tanașoca was born on 3 October 1941 in Bucharest, in the Kingdom of Romania. He was born in a family of ethnic Aromanians. His mother was the second cousin of the Aromanian neuropsychiatrist Florica Bagdasar. After completing his undergraduate studies at the University of Bucharest in 1964, Tanașoca obtained his Ph.D. in 1979 from the Faculty of Classics of the same university; his thesis, on the influence of Latin on Byzantine Greek vocabulary, was written under the direction of Haralambie Mihăescu. Tanașoca specialized in the study of classical philology and Balkan cultures, including the Aromanians, of which he published several works. He was also considered a specialist in Byzantine and Ottoman studies.
Tanașoca was the director of the Institute of South-East European Studies of the Romanian Academy. He was a monarchist, and was involved in the activities of the Carmen Sylva Research Center of the Princely Archive of Wied.
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