100 Notable alumni of
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University is 773rd in the world, 272nd in Europe, and 4th in Romania by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Alexandru Ioan Cuza University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Nicolae Iorga
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- historiangeopolitical analystliterary historianorientalisttranslator
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Nicolae Iorga was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet and playwright. Co-founder (in 1910) of the Democratic Nationalist Party (PND), he served as a member of Parliament, President of the Deputies' Assembly and Senate, cabinet minister and briefly (1931–32) as Prime Minister. A child prodigy, polymath and polyglot, Iorga produced an unusually large body of scholarly works, establishing his international reputation as a medievalist, Byzantinist, Latinist, Slavist, art historian and philosopher of history. Holding teaching positions at the University of Bucharest, the University of Paris and several other academic institutions, Iorga was founder of the International Congress of Byzantine Studies and the Institute of South-East European Studies (ISSEE). His activity also included the transformation of Vălenii de Munte town into a cultural and academic center.
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Cristian Mungiu
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- film directorscreenwriterradio personalityfilm producerjournalist
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Cristian Mungiu is a Romanian filmmaker. He won the Palme d'Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival for his film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, which he wrote and directed. He has also won the awards for Best Screenplay and Best Director, at the 2012 and 2016 Cannes Film Festivals, for his films Beyond the Hills and Graduation.
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Marin Sorescu
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- poetpaintertranslatorplaywright
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Marin Sorescu was a Romanian poet, playwright, and novelist.
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Marcela Topor
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- television presenterjournalist
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Marcela Topor is a Romanian journalist, and the wife of Catalan politician and journalist Carles Puigdemont, the former President of Catalonia's Generalitat. She holds a degree in English philology from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași. Topor first met her future husband at the International Festival of Amateur Theatre of Gerona in 1996, in which she participated as an actress with the Ludic Theatre company. They married in 2000.
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Vlad Filat
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- politicianentrepreneur
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Vladimir Filat, commonly referred to as Vlad Filat ( pronounced [vlad fiˈlat]), is a Moldovan businessman and politician, founder of Liberal Democratic Party of Moldova. He was the Prime Minister of Moldova from 25 September 2009 to 25 April 2013. He also was appointed as the Interim President of Moldova for a brief period of time in 2010. Following his conviction on charges of accepting bribes, Filat was released from jail in December 2019, 6 years earlier than his initial sentence.
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Monica Bîrlădeanu
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- actormodel
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Monica Elena Bîrlădeanu ( Romanian pronunciation: [moˈnika bɨrləˈde̯anu] (born December 12, 1978), professionally known as Monica Dean, is a Romanian actress and model.
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Alina Gorghiu
- Enrolled in Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
- In 2012 graduated with Doctor of Philosophy in criminal law
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- politicianlawyer
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Alina-Ștefania Gorghiu is a Romanian lawyer and politician who served as president of the National Liberal Party (PNL) from December 2014 until December 2016. She was a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Bucharest from December 2008 to December 2016. Since the latter date, she has represented Timiș County in the Romanian Senate.
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Mihai Trăistariu
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- musiciansinger
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Mihai Trăistariu, also known as simply Mihai (stylized as M I H A I or MIHAI), is a Romanian singer and songwriter. He is best known for representing Romania at the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 held in Athens, Greece, where he placed 4th with his song, "Tornerò". The track gained commercial success, selling over one million units worldwide and influencing the trajectory of Trăistariu's career.
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Ionel Teodoreanu
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- writerlawyerpoet
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Ionel Teodoreanu was a Romanian novelist and lawyer. He is mostly remembered for his books on the themes of childhood and adolescence.
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Teoctist Arăpașu
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- priest
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Teoctist was the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church from 1986 to 2007.
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Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu
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- historianpoliticianuniversity teacherdiplomat
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Mihai Răzvan Ungureanu is a Romanian historian, politician who served as Prime Minister of Romania in 2012. He was the foreign minister of Romania from 28 December 2004 to 12 March 2007, and he was appointed as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service later in 2007. Following the resignation of the Emil Boc government he was appointed Prime Minister serving through April 2012 when his cabinet was dismissed following a parliamentary vote of no-confidence. He was confirmed by the Parliament for a second term as Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service, after President Klaus Iohannis nominated him in June 2015 but he resigned in September 2016, citing health issues.
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Benjamin Fondane
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- poetfilm directorbiographerphilosopherliterary historian
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Benjamin Fondane or Benjamin Fundoianu ( Romanian pronunciation: [benʒaˈmin fundoˈjanu]; born Benjamin Wechsler, Wexler or Vecsler, first name also Beniamin or Barbu, usually abridged to B.; November 14, 1898 – October 2, 1944) was a Romanian and French poet, critic and existentialist philosopher, also noted for his work in film and theater. Known from his Romanian youth as a Symbolist poet and columnist, he alternated Neoromantic and Expressionist themes with echoes from Tudor Arghezi, and dedicated several poetic cycles to the rural life of his native Moldavia. Fondane, who was of Jewish Romanian extraction and a nephew of Jewish intellectuals Elias and Moses Schwartzfeld, participated in both minority secular Jewish culture and mainstream Romanian culture. During and after World War I, he was active as a cultural critic, avant-garde promoter and, with his brother-in-law Armand Pascal, manager of the theatrical troupe Insula.
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Eugenio Coșeriu
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- philologistuniversity teacherlinguistphilosopher of languageromanist
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Eugenio Coșeriu was a linguist who specialized in Romance languages at the University of Tübingen, author of over 50 books, honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
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Tudorel Toader
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- magistratepoliticianlawyer
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Tudorel Toader is a Romanian lawyer and professor.
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Eugen Lovinescu
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- historianliterary critictranslatorlinguistliterary historian
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Eugen Lovinescu was a Romanian modernist literary historian, literary critic, academic, and novelist, who in 1919 established the Sburătorul literary club. He was the father of Monica Lovinescu, and the uncle of Horia Lovinescu, Vasile Lovinescu, and Anton Holban. He was elected to the Romanian Academy posthumously, in 1991.
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Andrei Năstase
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- politicianlawyer
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Andrei Năstase, born 6 August 1975 is a Moldovan politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Internal Affairs from 8 June 2019 to 12 November 2019. He was also a member of Parliament of Moldova in 2019. Năstase was the leader of the Dignity and Truth Platform from 2015 to 2021.
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Cezar Petrescu
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- writeropinion journalisttranslatorchildren's writerjournalist
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Cezar Petrescu was a Romanian journalist, novelist, and children's writer.
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Emil Bodnăraș
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- spypoliticianmilitary officer
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Emil Bodnăraș was a Romanian communist politician, an army officer, and a Soviet agent, who had considerable influence in the Romanian People's Republic.
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Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol
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- university teachersociologistwritereconomisthistorian
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Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol was a Romanian historian, philosopher, professor, economist, sociologist, and author. Among his many major accomplishments, he is the Romanian historian credited with authoring the first major synthesis of the history of the Romanian people. His daughter Margareta Xenopol became a well-known Romanian composer.
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Pan Halippa
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- journalistpoliticianopinion journalist
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Pantelimon "Pan" Halippa was a Bessarabian and later Romanian journalist and politician. One of the most important promoters of Romanian nationalism in Bessarabia and of this province's union with Romania, he was president of Sfatul Țării, which voted union in 1918. He then occupied ministerial posts in several governments, following which he underwent political persecution at the hands of the Communist régime and was later incarcerated in Sighet prison.
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Constantin Stere
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- juristwriterpoliticianphilosopherlawyer
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Constantin G. Stere or Constantin Sterea was a Romanian writer, jurist, politician, ideologue of the Poporanist trend, and, in March 1906, co-founder (together with Garabet Ibrăileanu and Paul Bujor — the latter was afterwards replaced by the physician Ioan Cantacuzino) of the literary magazine Viața Românească. One of the central figures of the Bessarabian intelligentsia at the time, Stere was a key actor during the Union of Bessarabia with Romania in 1918, and is associated with its legacy.
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Valeriu Gafencu
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- student
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Valeriu Gafencu was a member of the Iron Guard who was active during the Legionnaires' rebellion. Arrested by the state authorities in 1941, he died 11 years later at Târgu Ocna Prison.
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Gheorghe I. Brătianu
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- historianpoliticianmedievalist
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Gheorghe I. Brătianu (28 January 1898 – 23–27 April 1953) was a Romanian politician and historian. A member of the Brătianu family and initially affiliated with the National Liberal Party, he broke away from the movement to create and lead the National Liberal Party-Brătianu. A history professor at the universities of Iași and Bucharest, he was elected titular member of the Romanian Academy. Arrested by the Communist authorities in 1950, he died at the notorious Sighet Prison.
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Magda Isanos
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- prose writerwriterlawyerpoetjournalist
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Magda Isanos was a Romanian poet.
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Păstorel Teodoreanu
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- lawyerpoettranslatorlinguist
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Păstorel Teodoreanu, or just Păstorel, was a Romanian humorist, poet and gastronome, the brother of novelist Ionel Teodoreanu and brother in law of writer Ștefana Velisar Teodoreanu. He worked in many genres, but is best remembered for his parody texts and his epigrams, and less so for his Symbolist verse. His roots planted in the regional culture of Western Moldavia, which became his main source of literary inspiration, Păstorel was at once an opinionated columnist, famous wine-drinking bohemian, and decorated war hero. He worked with the influential literary magazines of the 1920s, moving between Gândirea and Viața Românească, and cultivated complex relationships with literary opinion-makers such as George Călinescu.
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Dimitrie Gusti
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- historianwriteruniversity teachersociologistphilosopher
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Dimitrie Gusti was a Romanian sociologist, ethnologist, historian, and voluntarist philosopher; a professor at the University of Iaşi and the University of Bucharest, he served as Romania's Minister of Education in 1932–1933. Gusti was elected a member of the Romanian Academy in 1919, and was its president between 1944 and 1946. He was the main contributor to the creation of a new Romanian school of sociology.
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Garabet Ibrăileanu
- Enrolled in Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
- Studied in 1890
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- editing stafftranslatorsociologistliterary criticlinguist
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Garabet Ibrăileanu was a Romanian-Armenian literary critic and theorist, writer, translator, sociologist, University of Iași professor (1908–1934), and, together with Paul Bujor and Constantin Stere, for long main editor of the Viața Românească literary magazine between 1906 and 1930. He published many of his works under the pen name Cezar Vraja.
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Alexandru Bârlădeanu
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- economistpolitician
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Alexandru Bârlădeanu was a Romanian Marxian economist and statesman who was prominent during the communist regime until being sidelined in 1968. In his later years, following the collapse of the regime, he served as Senate President.
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Calistrat Hogaș
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- writer
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Calistrat Hogaș was a Moldavian, later Romanian prose writer. The son of a Tecuci priest, he studied at the University of Iași before beginning an over four-decade career as a high school teacher, often at Piatra Neamț. Meanwhile, he made several false starts as a writer before finding a suitable genre, namely stories drawn from his mountain rambles that appeared starting in 1907. He did not manage to collect his works during his lifetime, but these appeared to great success in 1921.
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Gheorghe Nichita
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- diplomatpoliticianengineer
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Gheorghe Nichita is a Romanian politician, who served as the mayor of Iași from 2003 to 2015, when he was suspended over allegations of corruption. A member of the Social Democratic Party, Nichita was the national vice-president of the party, and the leader of the party's county organization.
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Ștefan Procopiu
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- university teacherphysicist
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Ștefan Procopiu was a Romanian physicist and a titular member of the Romanian Academy.
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Octavian Țîcu
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- boxerhistorian
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Octavian Țîcu is a Moldovan politician, historian, and former professional boxer serving as a Member of Parliament in Moldova since 2019. He was Ministry of Youth and Sport in 2013.
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Marian Oprișan
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- politician
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Marian Oprișan is a Romanian politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he has been President of the Vrancea County Council twice: in 1995-1996, and from 2000 to 2020.
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Ion Vinea
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- literary criticpoettranslatorplaywrightwriter
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Ion Vinea was a Romanian poet, novelist, journalist, literary theorist, and political figure. He became active on the modernist scene during his teens—his poetic work being always indebted to the Symbolist movement—and founded, with Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco, the review Simbolul. The more conservative Vinea drifted apart from them as they rose to international fame with the Dada artistic experiment, being instead affiliated with left-wing counterculture in World War I Romania. With N. D. Cocea, Vinea edited the socialist Chemarea, but returned to the international avant-garde in 1923–1924, an affiliate of Constructivism, Futurism, and, marginally, Surrealism.
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Taulant Balla
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- politician
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Taulant Balla is an Albanian Socialist Party politician and Member of Parliament (MP) for Librazhd. He was first elected MP in the 2005 general election. He has held the offices of General Secretary and Parliamentary group leader of the Socialist Party. Currently he is the Minister of Interior.
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Grigore T. Popa
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- translatordiaristanatomistuniversity teacher
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Grigore T. Popa was a Romanian physician and public intellectual. Of lowly peasant origin, he managed to obtain a university education and become a professor at two of his country's leading universities. An anatomist by specialty, Popa worked on popularizing modern science, reforming the medical and higher education systems, and, in war hospitals, as a decorated and publicly acclaimed practitioner. His work in endocrinology and neuromorphology was valued abroad, while at home he helped train a generation of leading doctors.
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Mihai Ralea
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- philosopherliterary criticliterary historiananthropologistpolitician
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Mihai Dumitru Ralea was a Romanian social scientist, cultural journalist, and political figure. He debuted as an affiliate of Poporanism, the left-wing agrarian movement, which he infused with influences from corporatism and Marxism. A distinguished product of French academia, Ralea rejected traditionalism and welcomed cultural modernization, outlining the program for a secular and democratic "peasant state". Mentored by critic Garabet Ibrăileanu, he objected to the Poporanists' cultural conservatism, prioritizing instead Westernization and Francophilia; however, Ralea also mocked the extremes of modernist literature, from a position which advocated "national specificity". This ideology blended into his scholarly work, with noted contributions to political sociology, the sociology of culture, and social and national psychology. He viewed Romanians as naturally skeptical and easy-going, and was himself perceived as flippant; though he was nominally active in experimental psychology, he questioned its scientific assumptions, and preferred an interdisciplinary system guided by intuition and analogies.
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Dan Lungu
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- sociologisthistorianwriterpoliticianliterary critic
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Dan Lungu is a Romanian novelist, short story writer, poet and dramatist, also known as a literary theorist and sociologist. The recipient of critical acclaim for his short story volume Cheta la flegmă ("Quest for Phlegm") and his novels Raiul găinilor ("Chicken Paradise") and Sînt o babă comunistă! ("I'm a Communist Biddy!"), he is also one of the most successful authors to have emerged in post-1990 Romanian literature. Lungu's literary universe, which mainly comprises "microsocial" images of life under the communist regime and during the subsequent transitional period, bridges a form of Neorealism with Postmodernism. Often included among a group of authors who signed their first major contracts with Polirom publishing house, he is also seen as a distinctive voice from his adoptive provincial city of Iași.
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Dragoș Tudorache
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- politicianjudgelawyer
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Dragoș Tudorache is a Romanian politician of USR PLUS/USR who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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Isaac Jacob Schoenberg
- Enrolled in Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
- Studied in 1919-1922
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- university teachermathematician
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Isaac Jacob Schoenberg was a Romanian-American mathematician, known for his invention of splines.
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Cătălin Ivan
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- politician
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Cătălin Sorin Ivan is a Romanian politician, who since the 2009 election has been a Member of the European Parliament for Romania, representing the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Until 2015 he was the Leader of the Romanian delegation to the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats Group in the European Parliament. Since 2019 he is the President of the Alternativa pentru Demnitate Națională (Alternative for National Dignity) Party.
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Iorgu Iordan
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- publisherphilologistdiplomattrade unionistuniversity teacher
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Iorgu Iordan 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.
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Elena Alistar
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- politicianmedic
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Elena Alistar-Romanescu was a Bessarabian physician and politician who was part of Sfatul Țării from Bessarabia.
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Gherman Pântea
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- lawyermilitary personnelpoliticiandiplomat
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Gherman Vasile Pântea was a Bessarabian-born soldier, civil servant and political figure, active in the Russian Empire and Romania. As an officer of the Imperial Russian Army during most of World War I, he helped organize the committees of Bessarabian soldiers, oscillating between loyalty to the Russian Provisional Government and the cause of Bessarabian emancipation. Pântea was subsequently Military Director of the Moldavian Democratic Republic, answering to President Ion Inculeț. He personally created a Bessarabian defense force, tasked with combating Bolshevik subversion and Russian intimidation, but also braced for defeat after the October Revolution.
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Alexandru Philippide
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- romanisthistorianclassical scholaruniversity teacherlinguist
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Alexandru I. Philippide was a Romanian linguist and philologist. Educated in Iași and Halle, he taught high school for several years until 1893, when he secured a professorship at the University of Iași that he would hold until his death forty years later. He began publishing books on the Romanian language around the time he graduated from university, but it was not until he became a professor that he drew wider attention, thanks to a study of the language's history. Although not particularly ideological, he penned sharp, witty polemics directed at various intellectual figures, both at home and, in one noted case, in Germany.
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Petre Andrei
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- politicianuniversity teachersociologistphilosopher
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Petre Andrei was a Romanian sociologist, philosopher and politician.
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Demostene Botez
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- writerlawyerpoliticianpoettranslator
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Demostene Botez was a Romanian poet and prose writer.
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Gheorghe Buzatu
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- politicianhistorian
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Gheorghe Buzatu was a Romanian historian, politician, and professor of history at the University of Iași. Elected to the Romanian Senate for Iași County in 2000 on the lists of the nationalist party Greater Romania Party, he served as a vice president of that body over the next four years. He is best known for his controversial publications about the Jews and the Holocaust in Romania during World War II.
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Andrei Lupan
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- politicianwriterpoet
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Andrei Lupan was a Soviet and Moldovan writer, poet, politician, and chairman of Moldovan Writers' Union (1946–1955; 1958–1961).
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Alexandru Tănase
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Alexandru Tănase is a Moldovan politician. He is a former president of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Moldova. He was Justice Minister in the First Vlad Filat Cabinet, and in the first several months of the Second Filat Cabinet.
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Alina l'Ami
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- chess player
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Alina l'Ami is a Romanian chess player who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM).
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Tudor Chiuariu
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- politicianlawyer
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Tudor-Alexandru Chiuariu is a Romanian lawyer and politician. An independent, he served as Justice Minister in the Călin Popescu-Tăriceanu cabinet from April to December 2007. He represented Bacău County in the Romanian Chamber of Deputies from 2008 to 2012, and has represented Mehedinți County in the Romanian Senate since 2012.
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Ion Buzdugan
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- lawyerpoettranslatorpolitician
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Ion Alion Buzdugan was a Bessarabian-Romanian poet, folklorist, and politician. A young schoolteacher in the Russian Empire by 1908, he wrote poetry and collected folklore emphasizing Bessarabia's links with Romania, and associated with various founding figures of the Romanian nationalist movement, beginning with Ion Pelivan. Buzdugan was a far-left figure during the February Revolution, but eventually rallied with the National Moldavian Party in opposition to the socialists and the Bolsheviks. He vehemently supported the union of Bessarabia with Romania during the existence of an independent Moldavian Democratic Republic, and, as a member of its legislature (Sfatul Țării), worked to bring it about. Threatened by the Bolsheviks, he fled to Romania and returned with an expeditionary corps headed by General Ernest Broșteanu, being one of the delegates who voted for the union, and one of dignitaries who signed its proclamation.
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Theodor V. Ionescu
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- physicist
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Theodor V. Ionescu was a Romanian physicist and inventor who made remarkable discoveries in plasma physics, ionosphere physics, ion coupling electrons in dense plasmas, masers, magnetron amplifiers, and Zeeman effects related to controlled nuclear fusion and quantum emission mechanisms in hot plasmas. He was a member of the Romanian Academy from December 21, 1935.
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Ramona Strugariu
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- politician
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Ramona Strugariu is a Romanian politician of REPER and previous member of USR PLUS/USR who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament since 2019.
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Igor Corman
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- diplomathistorianpolitician
- Biography
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Igor Corman is a Moldovan politician and diplomat, President of the Moldovan Parliament from 30 May 2013 until 29 December 2014.
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Gheorghe Vrănceanu
- Enrolled in Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
- Studied in 1919-1922
- Occupations
- university teacherChartered Building Surveyormathematician
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Gheorghe Vrănceanu was a Romanian mathematician, best known for his work in differential geometry and topology. He was titular member of the Romanian Academy and vice-president of the International Mathematical Union.
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Raluca Ripan
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- chemist
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Raluca Ripan was a Romanian chemist, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. She wrote many treatises, especially in the field of analytical chemistry.
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Gheorghe Panu
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- writerlawyerjuristliterary criticjournalist
- Biography
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George Panu was a Moldavian, later Romanian memoirist, literary critic, journalist and politician. A native of Iași, educated there as well as in Paris and Brussels, he worked as a schoolteacher and lawyer, but made a name for himself in politics and journalism. His outlook was a radical one that shared common goals with the socialist movement. Noted for his bitter polemics, he served several terms in parliament, alternating between the main parties as well as heading his own small faction for nearly a decade. In the last years of his life, Panu wrote a valuable memoir detailing his experiences in the Junimea literary society, of which he had become an implacable adversary.
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Nichita Danilov
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- novelistpoetwriterdiplomat
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Nichita Danilov is a Romanian poet. He served as the acting ambassador of Romania to Moldova in 1999. Nichita Danilov is ethnically Lipovan.
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Victor Spinei
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- historianarchaeologistmedievalist
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Victor Spinei is Emeritus Professor of history and archaeology at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, member and vice president of the Romanian Academy. He is a specialist on the history of Romania and the Romanian people in the Early and High Middle Ages, the history of migratory peoples in Eastern and Southeastern Europe during this period, and the production and circulation of cult objects in Eastern and Southeastern Europe during the Middle Ages.
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Constantin Niță
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- university teacherpoliticianeconomist
- Biography
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Constantin Niță is a Romanian economist and politician. A member of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), he has been a member of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies for Brașov County since 2000. In the Emil Boc cabinet, he was Minister of Small and Medium Enterprises, Commerce and Business Environment from 2008 to 2009.
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Dimitar Agura
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- politicianhistorian
- Biography
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Dimitar Dimitrov Agura was a Bulgarian historian, one of the first professors of history at Sofia University and a rector of the university.
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Ion Th. Simionescu
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- paleontologistgeologistpolitician
- Biography
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Ion Th. Simionescu was a Romanian geologist, paleontologist and naturalist.
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Alexandru A. Philippide
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- poettranslatorwriteressayist
- Biography
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Alexandru A. Philippide was a Romanian poet.
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Alexandru Lambrior
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- romanistuniversity teacherlinguistphilologist
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Alexandru Lambrior was a Romanian philologist and folklorist. A native of Fălticeni in Moldavia, he studied at Iași University and, after beginning a career as a teacher, in Paris. He resumed teaching in 1878, but died of tuberculosis five years later. A pioneer of linguistics in his country, he revered the Romanian of the old medieval chronicles, deploring what he saw as the corrosive effects of neologisms. Lambrior compiled a successful anthology of texts covering some three centuries, and his work on early literature existed alongside an interest in folklore, about which he also proposed original theories.
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Yitzhak Coren
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- lawyertrade unionistpoliticianessayist
- Biography
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Yitzhak Coren was an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset for Mapai and the Alignment.
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Dorin Drăguțanu
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- economistpolitician
- Biography
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Dorin Drăguţanu is an economist from Moldova. He was born in Chişinău and has served as the head of the National Bank of Moldova since November 2009 until April 2016, when was replaced by Sergiu Cioclea.
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Ioan Borcea
- Enrolled in Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
- Studied in 1900
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- naturalistzoologistentomologist
- Biography
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Ioan Borcea was a Romanian zoologist. Born in Buhoci, Bacău County, he entered secondary school at the National College in Iași before going on to the Costache Negruzzi Boarding High School, from which he graduated in 1897. He then entered the natural sciences section of Iași University's sciences faculty, graduating in 1900. Initially a teaching assistant in the animal morphology department, Borcea received a scholarship to study in France the following year. In 1903, he obtained an undergraduate degree from the natural sciences faculty of the Sorbonne. In 1905, the same institution awarded him a doctorate; his thesis dealt with the genitourinary system of the Elasmobranchii. He performed research at the marine biology stations in the French villages of Banyuls-sur-Mer and Roscoff, as well as in Naples.
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D. I. Suchianu
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- film critictranslatorliterary criticeconomistactor
- Biography
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Dumitru Ion Suchianu, most often shortened to D. I. Suchianu or D.I.S., was a Romanian essayist, translator, economist and film theorist, also noted for his participation in politics. The son of a distinguished Armenian teacher-editor and his Romanian socialist wife, he was acquainted with, and inspired by, writer Ion Luca Caragiale, who visited his childhood home. Attending Iași's Boarding High School in the 1910s, he formed a lasting bond with Mihai Ralea. The two young men went on to study together at the University of Paris, where they earned their credentials as social scientists and political thinkers; Ralea also married Suchianu's sister Ioana. Their careers were tied to Viața Romînească magazine, put out by their mentor Garabet Ibrăileanu. It was here and in Adevărul newspaper that Suchianu made his reputation as a polemicist and essayist. His early writings tackled a variety of subjects, from political biographies and world affairs to legal history, a subject which also preoccupied him during his successive mandates at the Legislative Council. After 1927, he became directly involved in the ideological and aesthetic steering of Romanian cinema, as a columnist, film historian, censor, and eventually producer.
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Vasile Vasilache
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- translatorwriterpedagoguejournalistscreenwriter
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Vasile Vasilache was a writer from Moldova.
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Dimitrie D. Pătrășcanu
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- politicianwriteropinion journalist
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Dimitrie D. Pătrășcanu was a Romanian prose writer and dramatist.
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Calypso Botez
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- writerwomen's rights activist
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Calypso Botez, was a Romanian writer, suffragist and women's rights activist.
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Nicolai Costenco
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- writertranslator
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Nicolai Costenco was a writer from Moldova. He was managing editor of Viaţa Basarabiei (1934–1940) and was deported to Siberia în 1941.
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Vladimir Andrunakievich
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- pedagoguemathematician
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Vladimir Aleksandrovich Andrunakievich was a Soviet and Moldovan mathematician, known for his work in abstract algebra. He was a doctor of physical and mathematical sciences (1958), academician (1961) and vice-president (1964—1969, 1979—1990) of the Moldavian Soviet Academy of Sciences. Laureate of the State Prize of the Moldavian SSR (1972).
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Ilie Moscovici
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- translatormedicmilitary physicianhuman rights activisttrade unionist
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Ilie B. Moscovici was a Romanian socialist militant and journalist, one of the noted leaders of the Romanian Social Democratic Party (PSDR). A socialist since early youth and a party member since its creation in 1910, he returned from captivity in World War I to lead the PSDR from Bucharest, and involved himself in a violent clash with the Romanian authorities. He mediated between reformist and Bolshevik currents, and helped establish the Socialist Party of Romania (PS) as a fusion of both tendencies. Moscovici served as a PS representative in Chamber, but was deposed over his instigation of the 1920 general strike, then imprisoned. Although he voted against the creation of a Communist Party from the rump PS and criticized Comintern interference in Romanian affairs, he was again apprehended in 1921. Together with the communists, he appeared as a defendant in the Dealul Spirii Trial.
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Cornelia Druțu
- Born in
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Romania - Occupations
- mathematician
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Cornelia Druțu is a Romanian mathematician notable for her contributions in the area of geometric group theory. She is Professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.
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Petru Bogdan
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- chemist
- Biography
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Petru Bogdan was a Romanian chemist, educator, and politician. In 1926, he was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy.
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Alexis Nour
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- translatorlinguistspyjournalistgeographer
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Alexis Nour was a Bessarabian-born Romanian journalist, activist and essayist, known for his advocacy of Romanian-Bessarabian union and his critique of the Russian Empire, but also for controversial political dealings. Oscillating between socialism and Russian nationalism, he was noted as founder of Viața Basarabiei gazette. Eventually affiliated with Romania's left-wing form of cultural nationalism, or Poporanism, Nour was a long-term correspondent of the Poporanist review Viața Românească. Publicizing his conflict with the Russian authorities, he settled in the Kingdom of Romania, where he openly rallied with the Viața Românească group.
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Andrei Glavina
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- politicianwriter
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Andrei Glavina was an Austro-Hungarian-born Istro-Romanian writer, professor and politician born in Šušnjevica. Known as the "Apostle of the Istro-Romanians", he is recognized for his struggle for the Istro-Romanian culture and language, being notable his book Calindaru lu rumeri din Istrie, the first in history written in this language in collaboration with Constantin Diculescu. He also managed the creation of an Istro-Romanian municipality in 1922 being the first mayor, giving classes in Istro-Romanian in the only school of the municipality.
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Nichita Smochină
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- translatorfolkloristjuristphilosopherhistorian
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Nichita Smochină was an ethnic Romanian activist, scholar, and political figure from what is now Transnistria. He is especially noted for campaigning on behalf of Romanians in the Soviet Union. He was first active in the Russian Empire, serving with distinction in World War I. He turned to Romanian nationalism in 1917 when he was serving as an officer in Russian Transcaucasia. Smochină met Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, recording Lenin's then-tolerant views on Romanian emancipation. Smochină was then active in the Ukrainian People's Republic, where he led the general caucus formed by Romanians in Tiraspol. He was also part of the Central Council, and earned his reputation as a champion of Transnistrian Romanian interests.
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Loretta Handrabura
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- politician
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Loretta Handrabura is a Moldovan philologist holding a PhD in philology, university lecturer, ethnologist and politician, who served as Minister of Youth and Sports of Moldova between 30 July 2015 and 20 January 2016, and prior to this, as Deputy Prime Minister of Education of Moldova from 20 November 2009 until July 2015.
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Theodor Speranția
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- children's writerpoet
- Biography
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Theodor Dimitrie Speranția was a Romanian playwright, humorist, folklorist and journalist.
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Gheorghe Spacu
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- chemistuniversity teacher
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Gheorghe Spacu was a Romanian inorganic chemist.
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Arthur Gorovei
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- ethnographerwriterpoliticianfolklorist
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Arthur Gorovei was a Romanian writer, folklorist and ethnographer. In 1940, he was elected an honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
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Mihnea Moroșan
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Gheorghe Moroșanu is a Romanian mathematician known for his works in Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Nonlinear Analysis, Calculus of Variations, Fluid Mechanics, Asymptotic Analysis, Applied Mathematics. He earned his Ph.D. in 1981 from the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iași.
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Avram Steuerman-Rodion
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- propagandistmilitary personnelpoetliterary critictranslator
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Avram Steuerman-Rodion, born Adolf Steuerman or Steuermann and often referred to as just Rodion, was a Romanian poet, anthologist, physician and socialist journalist. A member of Romania's Jewish community, he was a lifelong militant for Jewish emancipation and assimilation, noted for poems which attack the prevailing antisemitism of his day. For a while, he was active as a propagandist of Hovevei Zion ideas among local Jews.
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Petre Iorgulescu-Yor
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- painter
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Petre Iorgulescu-Yor was a Romanian Expressionist painter of Jewish and Greek ancestry.
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Ioan I. Mironescu
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- writerpoliticianuniversity teacherphysiciandermatologist
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Ioan I. Mironescu was a Romanian prose writer and physician. A native of the Moldavia region, he headed a dermatology clinic and taught medicine at Iași, while also publishing several volumes of short humorous tales.
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Gheorghe Zane
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- economisthistorian
- Biography
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Gheorghe Zane was a Romanian economist and historian.
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Mihail Gheorghiu Bujor
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
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Mihail Gheorghiu Bujor was a Romanian lawyer, journalist and socialist militant. An important figure in the early Romanian labour movement, he embraced communism during World War I and organised Romanian armed detachments in Odessa in support of the October Revolution, hoping to foment a revolution in his native country. A political prisoner in Romania for much of the interwar period and during World War II, he held several minor political offices after the regime change in the late 1940s.
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Ion Costin
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- journalistpoliticianlawyer
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Ion T. Costin was a Bessarabian Romanian politician. He was born at a time when his native region, as the eastern half of Moldavia, had been taken over by the Russian Empire and organized into a Bessarabia Governorate. Following the October Revolution, he took part in the affairs of the Moldavian Democratic Republic as a member of Sfatul Țării, voting for union with the Kingdom of Romania. Active in its politics, he died several months before the Soviet occupation of Bessarabia.
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Octav Mayer
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- mathematician
- Biography
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Octav Mayer was a Romanian mathematician, the first to earn a doctorate in Romania.
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Sergiu Niță
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- politician
- Biography
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Sergiu T. Niță was a politician and lawyer from Romania. He served as Minister for Bessarabia (1920–1921, 1926–1927) in the Averescu cabinets.
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Constantin Dimitrescu-Iași
- Years
- 1849-1923 (aged 74)
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- philosophersociologist
- Biography
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Constantin Dimitrescu-Iași was a Moldavian, later Romanian philosopher, sociologist and pedagogue.
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Constantin Erbiceanu
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- literary historianhistorian
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Constantin Erbiceanu was a Romanian theologian and historian.
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Ion Negrei
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- historian
- Biography
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Ion Negrei is a Moldovan politician.
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Vasile Coroban
- Enrolled in Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
- Studied in 1935
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- philologistediting staffliterary criticliterary historianjournalist
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Coroban, Vasile was a writer from Moldova. He was a non-conformist literary historian and critic from Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR) (nowadays Republic of Moldova), PhD in philology (1958). Beginning in 1954, he was a member of the Writers' Union of SSRM. In 1935, he graduated from the law faculty of the University of Iași. He edited the newspaper "University Life" that had an anti-fascist orientation, and because of that, he was convicted.
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Gheorghe Ghibănescu
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- philologisthistorian
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Gheorghe Ghibănescu was a Romanian historian and philologist.
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Minodora Cliveti
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- politicianjurist
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Minodora Cliveti is a Romanian Social Democratic Party politician. In May 2012, she took her seat in the European Parliament in place of Rovana Plumb, who had resigned following her appointment as Environment Minister of Romania.
