Nicolas Trifon

Nicolas Trifon (born Sorin Cătălin Edmond Nicolae Dumnorix Mihai Trifon; 29 May 1949 – 18 August 2023) was a Romanian-born academic, editor and linguist in France of partial Aromanian descent. Born in Bucharest and having studied at the University of Bucharest, he moved in 1977 to Paris, France, where he completed a linguistics doctorate at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS).

Trifon had a prolific intellectual production. He published several anarchist works, was an editor at the French-language online newspaper and authored research works about Moldova and the Aromanians. Trifon was a major specialist in the Aromanians, having written several books about them. He saw himself involved in Aromanian activist initiatives and was a member of the Trâ Armânami Association of French Aromanians (AFA).

Biography Nicolas Trifon was born as Sorin Cătălin Edmond Nicolae Dumnorix Mihai Trifon on 29 May 1949 in Bucharest, Romania. His father was an economist while his mother was a pediatrician. He was of ethnic Aromanian descent on his father's side, with origins from the Aromanian village of Malovište today in North Macedonia.

Trifon studied at the Faculty of Romance, Classical and Oriental Languages (today the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures) of the University of Bucharest with a specialization on the French language. as well as by his daughter Laurie and three grandchildren.

As a linguist, Trifon wrote a book focused on Moldova together with the French Romanian historian Matei Cazacu. Titled La République de Moldavie, un État en quête de nation ("The Republic of Moldova, a state in search of nation"), it was published in 2010 by the French publishing house Éditions Non Lieu. In 2015, together with Niculaki Caracota, Trifon founded the N. C. Batzaria Aromanian Library , named after the Aromanian cultural activist Nicolae Constantin Batzaria, in Paris. It was later formally inaugurated by the AFA on 10 April 2016. Trifon was among the Aromanian figures living in Paris that donated books to the library.