Attractions » Brasov City Attractions » The First Romanian School
The First Romanian School, constructed in 1495 is in the courtyard of the Saint Nicholas Church.
The classrooms contain old printing and typography tools used by Deacon Coresi, acknowledged as the greatest Romanian scholar
and typographer in the 16th Century. Coresi was also an editor and translator in the Romanian Language, using the dialects of
southern Transylvania and northern Walachia, and credited with establishing the basis of literary Romanian language. He
printed 35 books: 9 Romanian, 3 Ilingvian (Romanian and Slavonic) and 23 Slavonic.
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six rooms of the First Romanian School host old household objects from Şchei, Coresi’s printing press and a library,
as well as the score of the first Romanian operetta, Crai nou (New Prince) by Ciprian Porumbescu and several documents
illustrating the activity of the old Braşov press. It the Juni Museum and the Ştefan Mironescu Art Museum, and the archives
of the museum in the Barac House has more than 100,000 documents that still await research and cataloguing.
