Nicolae Quintescu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Nicolae Quintescu

Romanian literaray critic, philologist, and translator

Date of Birth: 21-Feb-1841

Place of Birth: Craiova, Dolj County, Romania

Date of Death: 12-Aug-1913

Profession: translator, literary critic, philologist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Nicolae Quintescu

  • Nicolae Chiriac Quintescu (February 21, 1841–August 12, 1913) was a Wallachian, later Romanian philologist, essayist and translator. He was born in Craiova; his father seems to have been Chiriac Chintescu, who farmed a nearby plot of land given to him on lease.
  • Chiriac appears in a petition of 1831 and was on the city council in 1848.
  • Nicolae later described himself as a "son of Oltenia" who grew up "in the fortifying atmosphere....
  • in which Ioan Maiorescu had worked".
  • He graduated from Saint Sava College in Bucharest, and in 1861 left for Germany.
  • There, he took a degree in classical philology from Bonn University and, in 1867, a doctorate in literature from the University of Berlin.
  • The same year, after returning home, he became a professor of classical philology at the University of Ia?i; in 1881, he transferred to the University of Bucharest, retiring from the post in 1902.
  • He became director of the capital city's higher normal school in 1898, serving for a brief period of time.
  • While in Ia?i, Quintescu belonged to Junimea society, contributing to its Convorbiri Literare journal, but came into conflict with other members due to disagreements over philology.
  • Elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1877, he served as secretary of its literary section.
  • Within the Academy, he belonged to a committee tasked with writing a dictionary, and to another that met in 1903 to standardize spelling norms.
  • His activity as a writer began when Quintescu wrote unpublished poems as a young man; he later focused on literary commentary from a comparatist perspective.
  • He authored travel accounts, also translating Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Egmont and Friedrich Schiller's Die Huldigung der Künste.

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