deaths
July 11, 1797
Ienăchiță Văcărescu, Romanian historian and philologist (born 1740)
Ienăchiță Văcărescu
Ienăchiță Văcărescu was a Wallachian Romanian poet, historian, philologist, and boyar belonging to the Văcărescu family. A polyglot, he was able to speak Ancient and Modern Greek, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, Persian, French, German, Italian, and Ottoman Turkish.