Alexandru Piru
Romanian literary critic
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- PhD Literature University of Bucharest
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Alexandru Piru was a Romanian literary critic and historian. Born in Mărgineni, Bacău County, his parents were Vasile, a notary, and his wife Elena . In 1936, he graduated from Ferdinand I High School in Bacău, thereupon enrolling in the literature and philosophy faculty of Iași University. He graduated in 1940, and completed the pedagogical academy in Bucharest the following year. From 1943 to 1944, he taught at the National College in Iași. Piru then settled for good in Bucharest. In early 1946, he became a teaching assistant in George Călinescu's department at Bucharest University. In mid-1947, he received a doctorate; the thesis dealt with the works of Garabet Ibrăileanu. In 1967, he was awarded a doctorate in philology. Excluded from teaching and from public life by the new communist regime in 1948 for political reasons, he worked as a surveyor, lathe operator and methane gas fitter until 1955. He was allowed to return to higher education the following year. Piru eventually became a full professor and chairman of the Romanian literature department. He was a titular member of the academy of social and political sciences. Late in life, following the Romanian Revolution, he served as a Senator for the National Salvation Front.
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