I. E. Torouțiu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

I. E. Torouțiu

Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian literary historian

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1888

Place of Birth: Solca, Suceava County, Romania

Date of Death: 23-Nov-1953

Profession: writer, translator, folklorist, literary critic, literary historian

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About I. E. Torouțiu

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  • Torou?iu (June 17, 1888–November 24, 1953) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian literary historian. Born into a poor peasant family in Solca, then part of Austrian-ruled Bukovina, he did well in primary school, and a teacher advised him to leave for Suceava and learn a trade.
  • He did so at age fourteen, finding work at a printing press, where the boss noticed his interest in books and helped him obtain a scholarship.
  • He entered the local Greek Orthodox High School in the autumn of 1902.
  • He excelled as a student, including in German language and literature, while having to spend his free time at the press so as not to lose his scholarship.
  • After graduating in 1910, he enrolled at the literature and philosophy faculty of Czernowitz University.
  • A gifted student, he drew notice from rector Matthias Friedwagner, who arranged a scholarship at the Academy for Social and Commercial Studies in Frankfurt.
  • In 1913, he taught Romanian there.
  • He then became a teacher at Cantemir High School in Bucharest, capital of the Romanian Old Kingdom.
  • Until 1916, he edited Bucovina, a newspaper for emigrants from his home province.
  • His first book appeared in 1911; this was A fost odata, a collection of folk tales and songs.
  • Magazines that published his work include Convorbiri Literare, Samanatorul, Ramuri, Fat-Frumos, Floarea-soarelui, Litere and Pagini de istorie ?i critica literara.When Bucharest was occupied by the Central Powers at the end of 1916, he withdrew to Ia?i.
  • There, he agitated against the spring 1918 Treaty of Bucharest.
  • After the war, he returned to the national capital, where he established Bucovina publishing house, which he put to effective use for the benefit of other writers.
  • He headed Convorbiri Literare during the last phase of its first run (1939-1944).
  • Torou?iu published numerous works of literary history.
  • His magnum opus is the thirteen-volume Studii ?i documente literare, which appeared between 1931 and 1946, spanning some 8000 pages and leading Perpessicius to call him "a Hurmuzachi of literary history".
  • The first volume was done in collaboration with Gheorghe Carda?; the remainder, alone.
  • The work includes documents and pieces of literary history he found in his personal library, in archives and in institutions.
  • He was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1936; the new communist regime stripped him of membership in 1948.
  • Additionally, due to the pro-Nazi Germany line Convorbiri Literare had taken during World War II, he was barred from publishing in 1945.
  • Wracked by terminal illness, he died at his Bucharest home; his wife committed suicide the following day.He translated works by Ludwig Anzengruber, John Bunyan, Otto Funcke, Franz Grillparzer, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Plato and J.
  • C.
  • Ryle.
  • He collected folklore from Bukovina and published studies about its economy, as well as writing literary criticism.
  • Since 1991, the library in Torou?iu's native town has borne his name.

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