Ioan Slavici, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ioan Slavici

Romanian writter

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1848

Place of Birth: Arad, Arad County, Romania

Date of Death: 17-Aug-1925

Profession: writer, journalist, philologist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ioan Slavici (Romanian pronunciation: [i'o?an 'slavit???]; January 18, 1848 – August 17, 1925) was a Transylvanian, later Romanian writer and journalist.
He made his debut in Convorbiri literare ("Literary Conversations") (1871), with the comedy Fata de birau ("The Mayor's Daughter").
Alongside Eminescu he founded the Young Romania Social and Literary Academic Society and organized, in 1871, the Putna Celebration of the Romanian Students from Romania and from abroad. At the end of 1874, he settled in Bucharest, where he became secretary of the Hurmuzachi Collection Committee, then he became a professor, and then an editor of the newspaper Timpul ("The Time").
Alongside I.
L.
Caragiale and G.
Cosbuc, he edited the Vatra ("The Hearth") review.
During the first World War, he collaborated at the newspapers Ziua ("The Day") and Gazeta Bucure?tilor ("The Bucharest Gazette").
He was awarded the Romanian Academy Award (1903).