Alice Voinescu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Alice Voinescu

Romanian essayist, translator and writer

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1885

Place of Birth: Drobeta-Turnu Severin, Mehedinți County, Romania

Date of Death: 04-Jun-1961

Profession: writer, translator, university teacher, philosopher, essayist, diarist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Alice Voinescu (1885–1961) was a Romanian writer, essayist, university professor, theatre critic and translator.
She was the first Romanian woman to become a Doctor of Philosophy, which she did at the Sorbonne in 1913 in Paris.
In 1922, she became a professor of theatrical history at what would become the Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bucharest, where she taught for over two decades.
In 1948, she was removed from her department and spent a year and seven months in prisons in Jilava and Ghencea.
After her detention, she was kept under house arrest in the village of Coste?ti near Târgu Frumos until 1954.
Posthumously, her diary covering the interwar and communist period of Romania's history was discovered and published in 1997.