Tudor Vianu
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Tudor Vianu (January 8 1898 in Giurgiu-May 21 1964 in Bucharest) was a Romanian literary critic and philosopher.
In 1915, he became a student at the Department of Philosophy and Law at the University of Bucharest. He later obtained a doctorate in Philosophy at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, with the thesis Das Wertungsproblem in Schiller Poetik, his first major study in aesthetics (delivered in November of 1923). His work covered exactly four decades, from the 1924 publishing of the thesis.
In the beginning of summer 1964, Arghezi, poet al omului ("Arghezi, Poet of Mankind"), carrying the subititle Cântare Omului ("A Chant to Mankind"), a work in the field of comparative literature, began printing on the very day of the author's disappearance.
Some of his most important works include:
- Dualismul artei ("The Dualism of Art") - 1925;
- Poezia lui Eminescu ("The Poetry of Eminescu") - 1930;
- Arta şi Frumosul ("Art and Beauty") -1932;
- Idealul clasic al omului ("The Classic Idea of Man") -1934;
- Estetica ("Aesthetics"), a work in two volumes - 1934-1936;
- Filosofie şi poezie ("Philosophy and Poetry") -1937;
- Introducere in teoria valorilor ("Introduction to the Theory of Values") -1942;
- Istoria literaturii române moderne ("The History of Modern Romanian Literature"), in collaboration with Şerban Cioculescu and Vladimir Streinu -1944;
- Dicţionar de maxime (comentat) ("Dictionary of Maxims (Annotated)") -1962; etc.
Tudor Vianu was the titular professor of aesthetics at the University of Bucharest, and in charge of Romania's National Theatre in 1945, ambassador to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946, and honorary member of the Romanian Academy starting in 1955.
He committed suicide.ro:Tudor Vianu