Daniel of Moscopole or Daniil of Moscopole (1754–1825; or ; ), also known as Mihali Adami Hagi (), was an Aromanian scholar from Moscopole and student of Theodoros Kavalliotis, an 18th/19th-century professor and director of New Academy of Moscopole.
Works Daniel was an Aromanian, and has been described as Hellenized. In this period, Moscopole was an important Balkan city, the cultural and commercial center of the Aromanians and the site of the first printing press working in the Balkans.
Daniel, in his work, Εισαγωγική Διδασκαλία ("Introductory Instruction"),Central European University Press. Discourses of collective identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945): texts and commentaries. Central European University Press, 2006 , p. 67. compiled a combined dictionary of Greek (Romaika), Aromanian (Vlachika), Bulgarian (Vulgarika) and Albanian (Alvanitika). Daniel invited non-Greek speakers with this dictionary to learn the Greek language:Kostantaras Dean J.. Infamy and revolt: the rise of the national problem in early modern Greek thought. East European Monographs, 2006, , p. 96.
Despite promoting the Greek language, Aromanian was Daniel's mother tongue. Furthermore, according to the Bulgarian scholar Aleksandăr Ničev, he did not know Greek very well.
In 1794, he published in VeniceNistor Bardu, "Eighteenth Century Aromanian Writers: the Enlightenment and the Awakening of National and Balkan Consciousness", p. 97 in Philologica Jassyensia 3, no. 1 (2007): 93–102. a dictionary of four modern Balkan languages (Greek, Albanian, Aromanian and Bulgarian). Many authors published his works in Greek and in Aromanian in the Greek alphabet. With his lexicographic work, Daniel hoped to persuade the Albanians, Aromanians and Bulgarians to abandon their "barbaric" tonguesNistor Bardu, "Eighteenth Century Aromanian Writers: the Enlightenment and the Awakening of National and Balkan Consciousness", p. 94 in Philologica Jassyensia 3, no. 1 (2007): 93–102. and learn Greek, the "mother of knowledge". The book was republished in 1802 in Dubrovnik"Четириезичният речник на Даниил (гръцка и българска част). Годишник на Софийския университет. Факултет по западни филологии, т. LXX, София, 1976, стр. 5-180. or Venice.J. Kristophson, Das Lexikon Tetraglosson des Daniil Moschopolitis, in: Zeitschrift für Balkanologie, 10 (1974), pp. 7-128.
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External links Εισαγωγική Διδασκαλία (Introductory instruction), 1802