George Călinescu

Gheorghe Vișan, who became George Călinescu, was born on 19 June 1899 in Bucharest; the son of a servant, he was adopted by the family of Constantin Călinescu. He studied the humanities in Bucharest, was from 1923 to 1928 a scholarship holder at the Romanian School in Rome, then taught in secondary schools, took a doctorate at Iași in 1936 and became a professor there. Settled in Bucharest in 1945, he was a deputy without interruption from 1946, entered the Romanian Academy and from 1949 directed the Institute of Literary History and Folklore. He died on 12 March 1965.

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• NovelEnigma OtilieiGeorge Călinescu · 1938not translated into EnglishLiterature