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ANTHIM THE IBERIAN

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 94 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTHIM THE IBERIAN , a notable figure in the ecclesiastical See also:

history of See also:Rumania. A Georgian by See also:birth, he came to Rumania See also:early in the second See also:half of the 17th See also:century, as a See also:simple See also:monk. He became See also:bishop of Ramnicu in 1705, and in 1708 See also:archbishop of See also:Walachia. Taking a leading See also:part in the See also:political movements of the See also:time, he came into conflict with the newly appointed See also:Greek hospodars, and was exiled to See also:Rumelia. But on his See also:crossing the See also:Danube in 1716 he was thrown into the See also:water and drowned, as it is alleged, at the instigation of the See also:prince of Walachia. He was a See also:man of See also:great talents and spoke and wrote many See also:Oriental and See also:European See also:languages. Though a foreigner, he soon acquired a thorough knowledge of Rumanian, and was instrumental in helping to introduce that See also:language into the See also:church as its See also:official language. He was a See also:master printer and an artist of the first See also:order. He cut the See also:wood blocks for the books which he printed in See also:Tirgovishtea, Ramnicu, Snagov and See also:Bucharest. He was also the first to introduce Oriental founts of type into Rumania, and he printed there the first Arabic See also:missal for the Christians of the See also:East (Ramnicu, 1702). He also trained Georgians in the See also:art of See also:printing, and cut the type with which under his See also:pupil Mihail Ishtvanovitch they printed the first Georgian Gospels (See also:Tiflis, 1709). A man of great oratorical See also:power, Anthim delivered a See also:series of sermons (Didahii), and some of his See also:pastoral letters are See also:models of See also:style and of language as well as of exact and beautiful printing.

He also completed a whole corpus of lectionaries, missals, gospels, &c. See M. Gaster, Chrestomathie roumaine (1881), and " Gesch. d. rumanischen Litteratur," in Grober, Grundriss d. rom. Philologie, vol. ii. (1899) ; and E. Picot, See also:

Notice sur Anthim d'Ivir (See also:Paris, 1886). (M.

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