Ioan Bianu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ioan Bianu

Romanian philologist and librarian

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1856

Place of Birth: Făget, Alba, Romania

Date of Death: 13-Feb-1935

Profession: politician, librarian, archivist, biographer, university teacher, romanist, philologist, literary historian

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Ioan Bianu

  • Ioan Bianu (1856 or 1857 – February 13, 1935) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian philologist and bibliographer.
  • The son of a peasant family from Transylvania, he completed high school in Blaj, where he became a disciple of Timotei Cipariu and Ioan Micu Moldovan.
  • As a youth, he espoused Romanian nationalism, and came into conflict with the Austro-Hungarian authorities, before finally emigrating to the Romanian Old Kingdom in 1876.
  • There, he attended the University of Bucharest, later joining the faculty, where he taught Romanian literary history.
  • He was affiliated with the Romanian Academy Library for over half a century, transforming the institution from the meager state in which he found it, and overseeing a five-fold increase of its collection.
  • He helped author two important multi-volume works detailing early books and manuscripts from his country, and was a founder of library and information science in his adoptive country.
  • Near the end of his life, struggling with deafness, Bianu withdrew from the Library in favor of his friend Radu R.
  • Rosetti, but went on to serve as president of the Romanian Academy. Bianu's scholarship was doubled by his work as an organizer in the field, and, especially after 1880, by a participation in political intrigues.
  • He was a disciple of Dimitrie Sturdza, joining the latter's National Liberal Party and canvassing support in academia.
  • Bianu continued to agitate among the Transylvanian Romanians, but, by 1896, both he and Sturdza had turned moderate on the national issue, and favored a rapprochement with Austria-Hungary.
  • As such, Bianu was a "Germanophile" during World War I, meaning that he criticized Romania's alliance with the Entente Powers.
  • He remained in German-occupied territory following the fall of Bucharest, but was spared persecution upon the end of war.

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