Zaharia Carcalechi (1784 or 1787—1856) was an Imperial Austrian-born Wallachian publisher. Born into an Aromanian family in Oradea, his father, a merchant, later moved the family to Brașov. Zaharia, after settling in the Hungarian capital Buda, worked as a typographer and helped popularize books in the Romanian language. Opening a bookstore, he edited books in Romanian with the help of the university press; these were written by authors from Transylvania as well as from the Danubian Principalities. He edited a collection of theological and philosophical teachings as well as travel notes by Dinicu Golescu. In 1821, the oldest Romanian-language literary magazine, Biblioteca românească ("The Romanian Library"), appeared under his name in Buda. This publication, which he sought to shape into a