Ilarie Chendi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ilarie Chendi

Romanian literary critic

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1871

Place of Birth: Dârlos, Sibiu County, Romania

Date of Death: 23-Jun-1913

Profession: historian, literary critic

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Ilarie Chendi

  • Ilarie Chendi (November 14, 1871 – June 23, 1913) was an Austro-Hungarian-born ethnic Romanian literary critic. Born in Darlac, Kis-Küküllo County, now Dârlos, Sibiu County, in Transylvania, his father Vasile was a Romanian Orthodox priest, while his mother Eliza (née Hodo?) was related to Alexandru Papiu Ilarian and Nerva Hodo?.
  • His father's clerical family originated in ?aro?, while his mother's father was a priest in Band.
  • In 1894, he graduated from the theological seminary in Sibiu and enrolled in the Literature faculty of the University of Budapest, which he left in 1898.He made his prose-writing debut in 1893, and in 1898 settled in Bucharest, capital of the Romanian Old Kingdom.
  • He published three volumes of critical columns, fragments and impressions over the course of three years (1903, 1904 and 1905), an unprecedented level of activity for a Romanian critic.
  • Further works of impressions and literary biography followed in 1908 and 1911.
  • For a time, he was aligned with the Samanatorul circle of Nicolae Iorga, but broke with them in 1906.
  • He then founded Viata literara, later Viata literara si artistica, a magazine that appeared over the course of the year 1907 and that he wrote almost in its entirety, sometimes under pseudonyms.
  • Although still influenced by his former colleagues' ideas—Zigu Ornea labeled the publication "a dissident samanatorist magazine"—he pursued a somewhat independent course, engaging in bitterly ironic polemics with Iorga.
  • Chendi was among the founders of the Romanian Writers' Society.
  • His intellectual ascendancy was ongoing when he committed suicide in 1913.According to Nicolae Manolescu, he was Romania's first professional literary critic.

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