Claudiu Isopescu, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Claudiu Isopescu

Romanian philologist and educationist

Date of Birth: 18-Apr-1894

Date of Death: 01-Apr-1956

Profession: translator, pedagogue, university teacher, romanist, philologist, literary historian

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Claudiu Isopescu

  • Claudiu Isopescu (April 18 [O.S.
  • April 5] 1894 – April 1, 1956) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian literary historian and translator. Born into a well-read family Fratau?ii Vechi, in the Bukovina region of Austria-Hungary, he graduated from the Greek Orthodox Gymnasium in Suceava in 1912.
  • He then entered Czernowitz University, interrupting his studies during World War I.
  • Following the incorporation of Bukovina into Romania at the war's conclusion, he enrolled in the literature faculty of Bucharest University.
  • In 1919, he obtained a magna cum laude degree in modern philology, with a speciality in Italian.
  • From 1920 to 1923, he taught Italian and German at Bucharest's Matei Basarab High School.Moving to Italy in 1923, he was a member of the Accademia di Romania for the next two years.
  • In 1929, he became associate professor of Romanian language and literature at Sapienza University of Rome, rising to full professor in 1936.
  • His work appeared in the publications of the Accademia, Ephemeris Dacoromana and Diplomatarium italicum; in Codrul Cosminului, Il giornale di politica e di letteratura, Roma, L’Europa Orientale, Termini, Revista germani?tilor români, Meridiano di Roma, Rassegna Italo-Romena, Revue de Culture, EuropĂ©enne, Atti dell’Academia degli Arcadi, Le vie d’Oriente, Cahiers „Sextil Pu?cariu”, Il libro italiano del mondo, L’illustrazione toscana; in the bound volumes put out by the Romanian Academy, and in various Italian academic publications.
  • A researcher in the traditional mode of cultural and literary relations between Romania and Italy, he published the studies L’Italia e le origini della nuova letteratura romena (1929), La stampa periodica romeno-italiana in Romania e in Italia (1937) and Saggi romeno-italo-ispanici (1943), as well as exegeses on the works of Ion Codru-Dragu?anu and Gheorghe Asachi.
  • He died in Rome.

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