Ion Heliade Rădulescu or Ion Heliade (also known as Eliade or Eliade Rădulescu; January 6, 1802 – April 27, 1872) was a Wallachian, later Romanian academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician. A prolific translator of foreign literature into Romanian, he was also the author of books on linguistics and history. For much of his life, Heliade Rădulescu was a teacher at Saint Sava College in Bucharest, which he helped reopen. He was a founding member and first president of the Romanian Academy.
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6 January 1802 Târgovişte, Wallachia
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27 April 1872 (aged 70) Bucharest, Principality of Romania
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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