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    Lucian Blaga was a prominent 20th century Romanian philosopher, writer, and diplomat. He made significant contributions to Romanian culture during his lifetime through his original works and as a university professor. Blaga was born in 1895 in Austria-Hungary and received his primary education in Hungarian before obtaining a PhD from the University of Vienna. He went on to hold diplomatic posts around Europe while continuing to write and publish. Blaga taught cultural philosophy at the University of Cluj from 1939 until 1948 when he was dismissed from his position by the new Communist regime. Restricted from publishing for years, he spent his later life translating and working as a librarian until his death in 1961.

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    Lucian Blaga was a prominent 20th century Romanian philosopher, writer, and diplomat. He made significant contributions to Romanian culture during his lifetime through his original works and as a university professor. Blaga was born in 1895 in Austria-Hungary and received his primary education in Hungarian before obtaining a PhD from the University of Vienna. He went on to hold diplomatic posts around Europe while continuing to write and publish. Blaga taught cultural philosophy at the University of Cluj from 1939 until 1948 when he was dismissed from his position by the new Communist regime. Restricted from publishing for years, he spent his later life translating and working as a librarian until his death in 1961.

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    Lucian Blaga was a prominent 20th century Romanian philosopher, writer, and diplomat. He made significant contributions to Romanian culture during his lifetime through his original works and as a university professor. Blaga was born in 1895 in Austria-Hungary and received his primary education in Hungarian before obtaining a PhD from the University of Vienna. He went on to hold diplomatic posts around Europe while continuing to write and publish. Blaga taught cultural philosophy at the University of Cluj from 1939 until 1948 when he was dismissed from his position by the new Communist regime. Restricted from publishing for years, he spent his later life translating and working as a librarian until his death in 1961.

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    Biography

    Lucian Blaga was a commanding personality of the Romanian culture of the


    interbellum period. He was a philosopher and writer highly acclaimed for his
    originality, a university professor and a diplomat. He was born on 9 May 1895 in
    Lancram, near Alba Iulia, Austria-Hungary, his father being an Orthodox priest. He
    later described his early childhood, in the autobiographical The Chronicle and the
    Song of Ages, as "under the sign of the incredible absence of the word".

    His elementary education was in Hungarian at Sebe? (1902�1906), after which he


    attended the "Andrei ?aguna" Highschool in Bra?ov (1906�1914), under the
    supervision of a relative, Iosif Blaga (Lucian's father had died when the former
    was 13), who was the author of the first Romanian treatise on the theory of drama.
    At the outbreak of the First World War, he began theological studies at Sibiu,
    where he graduated in 1917. He published his first philosophy article on the
    Bergson theory of subjective time. From 1917 to 1920, he attended courses at the
    University of Vienna, where he studied philosophy and obtained his PhD.

    Upon returning to Transylvania, now a part of Romania, he contributed to the


    Romanian press, being the editor of the magazines Culture in Cluj and The Banat in
    Lugoj.

    In 1926, he became involved in Romanian diplomacy, occupying successive posts at


    Romania's legations in Warsaw, Prague, Lisbon, Bern and Vienna. His political
    protector was the famous poet Octavian Goga, who was briefly a prime minister;
    Blaga was a relative of his wife. He was elected a titular member of the Romanian
    Academy in 1936. His acceptance speech was entitled Elogiul satului rom�nesc (In
    Praise of the Romanian Village).

    In 1939, he became professor of cultural philosophy at the University of Cluj,


    temporarily located in Sibiu in the years following the Second Vienna Award. During
    his stay in Sibiu, he edited, beginning in 1943, the annual magazine Saeculum.

    He was dismissed from his university professor chair in 1948 because he refused to
    express his support to the new Communist regime and he worked as librarian for the
    Cluj branch of the History Institute of the Romanian Academy. He was forbidden to
    publish new books, and until 1960 he was allowed to publish only translations. He
    completed the translation of Faust, the masterpiece of Goethe, one of the German
    writers that influenced him most.

    In 1956, he was nominated to the Nobel Prize for Literature[citation needed] on the
    proposal of Bazil Munteanu of France and Rosa del Conte of Italy, but it seems the
    idea was Mircea Eliade's. Still, the Romanian Communist government sent two
    emissaries to Sweden to protest against the nomination,[citation needed] because
    Blaga was considered an idealist philosopher, and his poems were forbidden until
    1962.[citation needed]

    He was diagnosed with cancer and died on 6 May 1961. He was buried on his birthday,
    9 May, in the countryside village cemetery of Lancram, Romania.

    Blaga with daughter


    He was married to Cornelia (n�e Brediceanu).[1] They had a daughter, Dorli, her
    name being derived from dor, a noun that can be translated, roughly, as "longing".

    The University of Sibiu bears his name today.

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