By late 1817, Beldiman had completed his own version of Voltaire's Oreste, which was only published in 1820.Călinescu, p. 55; Lascu, pp. 94–95; Eliade, p. 348 He soon signed contracts with the Wallachian publisher, Zaharia Carcalechi, who was active in the literary circles of Habsburg Hungary.Densusianu, p. 27; Marcu, p. 119 In 1818, Beldiman also put out Învățătură sau povățuire pentru facerea pâinii ("A Guide or Advisor to Bread-making"), ultimately based on a text by Christian Albert Rückert, but directly translated from the Greek version penned by Dimitrios Samurkasis (Dimitrie Samurcaș).Călinescu, p. 55; Marcu, p. 121 Also that year, Beldiman completed a translation of Salomon Gessner's Der Tod Abels, from the French intermediary. It was published at Buda as Moartea lui Avel.Călinescu, pp. 55, 980; Densusianu, p. 27; Lascu, p. 94; Marcu, p. 121 Through his presence in the Habsburg realm, Beldiman was in contact with the "Transylvanian School", represented by poets such as Ion Budai-Deleanu. As a result, Iorga attributed to Budai-Deleanu a manuscript-poem called Menehmii sau fraţii de gemene, later discovered to have been Beldiman's translation of Jean-François Regnard's Les Ménechmes.Alexandru Piru, "Istorie literară. Istoria literaturii române de N. Iorga într-o nouă ediție", in România Literară, Issue 30/1969, p. 12
