Constantin Erbiceanu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 05-Aug-1838
Place of Birth: Erbiceni, Iași County, Romania
Date of Death: 21-Mar-1913
Profession: historian, literary historian
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Constantin Erbiceanu
- Constantin Erbiceanu (born Constantin Ionescu; August 15, 1838–March 21, 1913) was a Romanian theologian and historian. Born in Erbiceni, Ia?i County, his father was the Romanian Orthodox priest Ioan Ionescu.
- His mother died he was ten, the family was of modest means, and it was only after his 1873 marriage to Aglae Negrescu that Erbiceanu was freed of material cares.
- He studied at the Veniamin Costache seminary from 1850 to 1858 and the theology and literature faculties of Ia?i University from 1860 to 1864.
- From 1865 to 1868, he attended specialty courses in theology at Athens University.
- He was a professor of general church history and canon law at Socola Seminary in Ia?i from 1868 to 1886, and at the central seminary in Bucharest from 1886 to 1892.
- While in Ia?i, his family home had an elevated intellectual atmosphere.
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- Xenopol, Alexandru Lambrior and George Panu; even Mihai Eminescu dropped in at times.From 1887 to 1892, he was a professor of introductory theology at Bucharest University's theology faculty, teaching canon law there from 1892 to 1903.
- He served as faculty dean from 1896 to 1900, and from 1897 to 1904 was a substitute professor of Greek at that institution.
- Elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1890, he was raised to titular status in 1899.
- He also belonged to learned societies in Constantinople.Among Romania's first Hellenic studies specialists, he translated and published numerous Greek documents regarding the history of the Romanians.
- These appeared especially in Revista Teologica, which he led from 1883 to 1887, and also in Biserica Ortodoxa Româna.
- Other studies deal with the history of the church in Moldavia and the lives of Romanian cultural personalities.
- His daughter Constan?a became a noted pianist and music professor.
- One son became a road engineer, another studied literature and a third took up a military career.
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