Iorgu Iordan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Iorgu Iordan

Romanian linguist

Date of Birth: 11-Oct-1888

Place of Birth: Tecuci, Galați County, Romania

Date of Death: 20-Sep-1986

Profession: politician, diplomat, university teacher, journalist, romanist, publisher, philologist, linguist, trade unionist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Iorgu Iordan (Romanian pronunciation: ['jorgu jor'dan]; also known as Jorgu Jordan or Iorgu Jordan; September 29 [O.S.
October 11] 1888–September 20, 1986) was a Romanian linguist, philologist, diplomat, journalist, and left-wing agrarian, later communist, politician.
The author of works on a large variety of topics, most of them dealing with issues of the Romanian language and Romance languages in general, he was elected a full member of the Romanian Academy in 1945.
He was head of its Institute of Linguistics (currently named after him and Alexandru Rosetti) between 1949 and his retirement in 1962. He was the author of several Romanian language instruments, published under the aegis of the Romanian Academy (including Dictionarul limbii române - "Dictionary of the Romanian Language", Micul Dictionar Academic - "Concise Dictionary of the Academy" and Îndreptar ortografic, ortoepic si de punctuatie - "Guide to Orthography, Orthoepy and Punctuation").