CORESI. — Romanian deacon, born c. 1525 and died in 1600, of an Italo-Greek family that came from Chios to Wallachia. He was the father of the religious and literary language of the Romanians.
From 1560 to 1581, in the printing house founded by the German Lutherans in Brașov (Transylvania), assisted by two Romanian priests, he published, alongside 10 religious works in Slavonic, another 6 in Romanian (2 catechisms, a Gospel of the Four Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, and a Psalter). In these works he used the old manuscript translations of the previous two centuries, which had arisen, half-finished, under especially Protestant influence. All the religious and liturgical texts published subsequently imitated this model, thus giving the Romanian literary language a singular unity.