Ion Budai-Deleanu (January 6, 1760 – August 24, 1820)[1] was a Romanian scholar, philologist, historian, poet, and a representative of the Transylvanian School.

[1] After completing his doctorate at the University of Erlau, he settled in Lemberg (now Lviv in Ukraine).

[4] He proposed that the union should be achieved under the rule of the Habsburgs, through the annexation of Wallachia and Moldavia into the Grand Principality of Transylvania.

[6] He promoted the purification of the Romanian language from loanwords, proposing that only borrowings from Italian and French should be permitted.

Streets în Arad, Bucharest, Cluj-Napoca, Oradea, Sibiu, and Timișoara are named after him.