Ioan Alexandru Lapedatu, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Ioan Alexandru Lapedatu

ethnic Romanian Austro-Hungarian poet, prose writer and newspaper columnist

Date of Birth: 06-Jul-1844

Date of Death: 06-Apr-1878

Profession: poet, editor

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Ioan Alexandru Lapedatu (Romanian pronunciation: [i'o?an alek'sandru lape'datu]; July 6, 1844 – March 28, 1878) was an ethnic Romanian Austro-Hungarian poet, prose writer and newspaper contributor. Born in Colun, Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region, his parents Alexa and Ana (née Panga) were peasants.
He attended primary school in a nearby Hosman, followed by the Roman Catholic High School in Sibiu from 1860 to 1868.
He received a scholarship from ASTRA to study philology at the University of Paris, which he did from 1868 to 1870, followed by the Free University of Brussels.
He received a doctorate in philology and literature in 1871.
A renowned professor of classical languages at Bra?ov's Orthodox High School, he came to be considered among the leading teachers in Transylvania.
His first verses, which he wrote while in high school, appeared in Aurora româna; he later contributed to magazines both in his native province and in the Romanian Old Kingdom: Albina Pindului, Familia, Revista literara ?i ?tiin?ifica, Timpul, Traian.
He edited Orientul latin from 1874 to 1875 and Albina Carpa?ilor from 1877 to 1878.
He sometimes used the pseudonyms Narcis and Noura?.
He published two volumes: Încercari în literatura in 1874 and Asupra situa?iunii in 1877.
The short fiction he wrote in periodicals, particularly in Albina Carpa?ilor, was published in the two-volume Nuvele istorice (1905–1906).He was married twice; in 1876, his second wife bore twin sons Alexandru I.
and Ion.