Aron Densușianu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Aron Densușianu

Romanian university teacher, writer and lawyer (1837-1900)

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1837

Place of Birth: Densuș, Hunedoara County, Romania

Date of Death: 02-Sep-1900

Profession: writer, lawyer, poet, historian, university teacher, romanist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio


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About Aron Densușianu

  • Aron Densu?ianu (pen name of Aron Pop; November 19, 1837 – September 15 [O.S.
  • September 2] 1900) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian critic, literary historian, folklorist and poet. He was born in Densu?, Hunedoara County, in the Transylvania region.
  • His parents were the Romanian Orthodox priest Vizantie Pop and his wife Sofia (née Popovici).
  • He was the brother of historian Nicolae Densu?ianu.
  • From 1846 to 1848, he attended the normal school in Ha?eg, followed by the Blaj gymnasium (1852–60) and the Sibiu legal academy (1860–64).
  • He made his poetry debut in 1860 in Foaie pentru minte, inima ?i literatura and submitted poems, critical studies and political articles to the main Transylvanian periodicals of the time: Amicul ?coalei, Concordia, Federa?iunea, Albina, Transilvania and Familia.
  • A politically motivated trial was held against him in 1873, and he spent a month in prison.
  • In 1874–75, he edited the Bra?ov political newspaper Orientul latin, with his brother and Ioan Alexandru Lapedatu as collaborators.
  • He belonged to Astra, and in 1877 was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.
  • Residing at Fagara?, he practiced law from 1864 to 1880; in 1881, he moved to the Romanian Old Kingdom, settling in the Moldavian capital of Ia?i.
  • There, he was a professor of Latin language and literature at the University of Ia?i, as well as a substitute professor of Romanian literary history.
  • He was vice president of the city's Cultural League for the Unity of All Romanians chapter, and from 1893 to 1897 edited Revista critica-literara.As a fiction writer, he was mediocre but prolific and ambitious; his work includes a two-volume saga, Negriada (1879, 1884).
  • His main calling was as a critic and literary historian (Aventuri literare, 1881; Cercetari literare, 1887).
  • His views were grounded in a rigorous, classically oriented theoretical base; he was studious, conscientious and erudite, a competent interpreter of old literature as well as that dating to the 1848 revolution era.
  • However, he was less conscious of contemporary literature's achievements and a firm opponent of Junimism, which caused his contributions to be neglected or minimized for a long time.In 1864, he married Elena Circa, a native of Cernatu in Bra?ov County four years his junior.
  • The couple had a number of children, including Ovid; Eliza, who would marry Vespasian Erbiceanu; and Elena, a future physician and university professor married to Emil Pu?cariu.

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