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Ion Heliade Rădulescu

1802 - 1872

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Ion Heliade Rădulescu or Ion Heliade (also known as Eliade or Eliade Rădulescu; Romanian pronunciation: [ˈi.on (h)eliˈade rəduˈlesku]; 6 January 1802 – 27 April 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ion Heliade Rădulescu is the 3,356th most popular writer (up from 3,856th in 2019), the 245th most popular biography from Romania (up from 278th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Romanian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Ion Heliade Rădulescu ranks 3,356 out of 7,302Before him are Alexander Bestuzhev, Begum Rokeya, Olena Teliha, James Rollins, Lucius Varius Rufus, and Hendrik Willem van Loon. After him are Yulian Semyonov, Ford Madox Ford, Ghada al-Samman, Pierre Benoit, R. J. Palacio, and E. Nesbit.

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Among people born in 1802, Ion Heliade Rădulescu ranks 39Before him are Adolphe Nourrit, Friedrich Adolf Trendelenburg, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire, Princess Emma of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, Cesare Pugni, and Louis Niedermeyer. After him are Niccolò Tommaseo, Prince Franz de Paula of Liechtenstein, Adolphe d'Archiac, Adolphe Niel, Benoît Fourneyron, and Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1872, Ion Heliade Rădulescu ranks 44Before him are Jacques Babinet, Kamehameha V, Carl Jaenisch, Pavel Kiselyov, Frederick Denison Maurice, and Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. After him are Princess Amalia of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Jean-Marie Duhamel, George Catlin, Martin Ohm, Edwin Atherstone, and Michel Carré.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Ion Heliade Rădulescu ranks 245 out of 844Before him are Reuven Feuerstein (1921), Elena Văcărescu (1864), Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894), Adolf Albin (1848), Theodor Aman (1831), and Anca Petrescu (1949). After him are Nicolae Titulescu (1882), Titu Maiorescu (1840), Ivan Patzaichin (1949), Elek Schwartz (1908), Nikolai Spathari (1636), and Ágnes Esterházy (1891).

Among WRITERS In Romania

Among writers born in Romania, Ion Heliade Rădulescu ranks 33Before him are Marthe Bibesco (1886), Benjamin Fondane (1898), Ferenc Kazinczy (1759), Tudor Arghezi (1880), Liviu Rebreanu (1885), and Elena Văcărescu (1864). After him are Alexandru Macedonski (1854), Nichita Stănescu (1933), George Coșbuc (1866), Gabriela Adameșteanu (1942), Isidore Isou (1925), and Ioan Slavici (1848).