Aron Densușianu

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Aron Densușianu (pen name of Aron Pop; November 19, 1837 – September 15 [O.S. September 2] 1900) was an Austrian Empire-born Romanian critic, literary historian, folklorist and poet.

He was born in

University of Iași, as well as a substitute professor of Romanian literary history. He was vice president of the city's Cultural League for the Unity of All Romanians chapter, and from 1893 to 1897 edited Revista critică-literară.[1]

As a fiction writer, he was mediocre but prolific and ambitious; his work includes a two-volume saga, Negriada (1879, 1884). His main calling was as a critic and literary historian (Aventuri literare, 1881; Cercetări literare, 1887). His views were grounded in a rigorous, classically oriented theoretical base; he was studious, conscientious and erudite, a competent interpreter of old literature as well as that dating to the 1848 revolution era. However, he was less conscious of contemporary literature's achievements and a firm opponent of Junimism, which caused his contributions to be neglected or minimized for a long time.[1]

In 1864, he married Elena Circa, a native of

Cernatu in Brașov County four years his junior.[3] The couple had a number of children, including Ovid; Eliza, who would marry Vespasian Erbiceanu; and Elena, a future physician and university professor married to Emil Pușcariu.[4]

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  2. ^ a b c Ioan Octavian Tătar, Aron Densușianu despre Avram Iancu, p. 97, in Restituiri. Acta Musei Devensis, vol. V. Deva, 1997
  3. ^ Marin Bucur, Ovid Densușianu, p. 5. Bucharest: Editura Tineretului, 1967
  4. ISBN 978-973-790-755-4
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