Raicu Ionescu-Rion, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Raicu Ionescu-Rion

Romanian literary critic and socialist commentator

Date of Birth: 24-Aug-1872

Date of Death: 19-Apr-1895

Profession: sociologist, literary critic

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Raicu Ionescu-Rion

  • Raicu Ionescu-Rion (born Raicu Ionescu; August 24, 1872 – April 19, 1895) was a Romanian literary critic and socialist commentator. Born in Balabane?ti, Gala?i County, he came from a poor peasant family.
  • He attended primary school in Tacuta village (1879-1882), high school in Bârlad (1882-1889) and the faculty of literature and philosophy at Ia?i University (1890-1893), meanwhile taking classes on a scholarship at the higher normal school.
  • While in high school in 1887, together with Garabet Ibraileanu, N.
  • Savin, D.
  • Moscu and T.
  • Carda?, he founded the socialist Orientul literary society.
  • During this period, he undertook a systematic reading of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Max Nordau, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer, as well as of Hippolyte Taine and Georg Brandes.
  • His published debut came in 1889 with the article "ĂŽmprejurari u?uratoare", published in the Roman ?coala noua, an outfit headed by P.
  • Mu?oiu and E.
  • Vaian, and where Ibraileanu was chief editor.
  • He contributed social criticism and theoretical articles to the socialist newspapers Critica sociala and Munca, as well as to Evenimentul (also edited by Ibraileanu).
  • The majority of his literary studies appeared in Evenimentul literar.
  • He worked as a substitute teacher in Târgovi?te (1893-1895), where he died of consumption.
  • He used the pen names Rion, V.
  • Rion, Noir, Th.
  • Bulgarul, Faust, Paul Fortuna and G.
  • Mirea.
  • His close friends Ibraileanu and Sofia Nadejde published a posthumous collection of his criticism as Scrieri literare (1895).
  • In his work, Ionescu-Rion showed himself to be a follower and admirer of Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea, also displaying a close affinity with Ibraileanu.

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