Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică

Romanian literary historian and literary critic (1866-1934)

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1866

Place of Birth: Brașov, Brașov County, Romania

Date of Death: 21-Sep-1934

Profession: politician, translator, biographer, literary critic, literary historian

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Gheorghe Bogdan-Duica (born Gheorghe Bogdan; January 2, 1866 [O.S.
December 21, 1865]–September 21, 1934) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian literary critic.
The son of a poor merchant family from Bra?ov, he attended several universities before launching a career as a critic, first in his native town and then in Czernowitz.
Eventually settling in Bucharest, capital of the Romanian Old Kingdom, he managed to earn a university degree before teaching at a succession of high schools.
Meanwhile, he continued publishing literary studies as well as intensifying an ardently nationalistic, Pan-Romanian activism.
He urged the Romanian government to drop its neutrality policy and enter World War I; once this took place and his adopted home came under German occupation, he found himself arrested and deported to Bulgaria.
After the war's conclusion and the union of Transylvania with Romania, he became a literature professor at the newly founded Cluj University.
There, he served as rector in the late 1920s, but found himself increasingly out of touch with modern trends in literature.