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Lucian
Blaga
Philosopher, Poet and Playwright
(1895-1961)
| 1895 |
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Born (May 9th) as the ninth son of the parish priest (Romanian Orthodox
Church) of the village of Lâncrâm, south of Alba Iulia in Transylvania |
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1908 |
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The death of his father leaves the family destitute and Blaga has to leave
secondary school, but later registers as an external student |
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1910 |
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Publishes his first poems |
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1914 |
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Publishes his first philosophical article, 'Notes on intuition in
Bergson'.
To avoid service in the Austro-Hungarian army, attends theological classes at
the Theological Institute of Sibiu, graduating in 1917 |
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1918 |
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Begins to study philosophy at the University of
Vienna |
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1920 |
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Awarded his Ph. D. with the thesis Kultur und Erkenntnis. Marries.
Returns to Romania. Publishes more poems and also begins to publish plays |
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1922 |
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Publishes Culture and Cognition
(thesis) |
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1926 |
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Goes as press attache to the Romanian legation in
Warsaw |
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1927 |
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Is transferred to Prague. Dorli, his daughter, is
born |
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1932 |
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Transferred to Vienna |
| 1936 |
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Elected, at 41 years, active
member of the Romanian Academy |
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1937 |
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Transferred to the Romanian
Legation in Bern, Switzerland, as press counselor |
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1938 |
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Transferred back to Bucharest and then to
Lisbon.
Returns to Romania as Professor of the Philosophy of Culture (a chair specially
created for him) at the University of Cluj |
| 1947 |
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Romanian Students' Union publishes first part of his course, On
Philosophical Cognition |
| 1948 |
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Lithographed publication of his course Anthropological Aspects |
| 1949 |
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Is dismissed from his chair by the Communist
regime and appointed
librarian of the Cluj branch of the Library of the Romanian Academy. Out of
favor, he publishes only translations until 1960 |
| 1956 |
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Nominated for the Nobel Prize on the proposal of Bazil Munteanu (France)
and Rosa del Conte (Italy), he was on the point of getting the award when the
communist government in Bucharest sent emissaries to Sweden to protest against
his nomination with false political allegations |
| 1961 |
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Dies of cancer. Buried at Lâncrâm |
| 1962 |
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Blaga's works begin to be published again, many edited by his
daughter |
Published Works
| Poems |
1919 - Poems of Light
1921 - The Prophet's Footsteps
1924 - In the Great Passage
1929 - In Praise of Sleep
1933 - At the Watershed
1938 - At the Courtyard of Yearning
1943 - Unsuspected Steps--New Poems
1982 - 3 Posthumous Poems |
| Plays |
1921 - Zamolxis, A Pagan Mystery
1923 - Whirling Waters
1925 - Daria, The Deed, Resurrection
1927 - Master-Builder Manole
1930 - The Children's Crusade
1934 - Avram Iancu
1944 - Noah's Ark |
| Philosophical Works |
1924 - The Philosophy of Style.
1925 - The Original Phenomenon and The Facets of a Century
1931 - The Dogmatic Aeon
1933 - Luciferian Knowledge
1934 - Transcendental Censorship
1936 - Horizon and Style and The Mioritic Space
1937 - The Genesis of Metaphor and the Meaning of Culture
1939 - Art and Value
1940 - The Divine Differentials
1942 - Religion and Spirit and Science and Creation
1943 - The Trilogy of Knowledge (The Dogmatic Aeon, Luciferian
Knowledge, Transcendent Censorship: in 1983 On Philosophical Cognition
and Experiment and the Mathematical Spirit added by his daughter)
1944 - The Trilogy of Culture (Horizon and Style, The Mioritic Space,
The Genesis of Metaphor and the Meaning of Culture)
1946 - The Trilogy of Values (Science and Creation, Magical Thinking and
Religion, Art and Value)
1959 - Historical Existence
1966 - Romanian Thought in Transylvania in the 18th Century
1968 - Horizons and Stages
1969 - Experiment and the Mathematical Spirit
1972 - Sources (essays, lectures, articles)
1974 - On Philosophical Cognition
1977 - Philosophical Essays
1983 - The Cosmological (The Divine Differentials, Anthropological
Aspects, Historical Existence) |
Other Prose Works
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1919 - Stones for My Temple, aphorisms
1945 - Discoblus, aphorisms
1965 - The Chronicle and Song of Ages, memoirs
1977 - The Élan of the Island, aphorisms
1990 - Charon's Ferry, novel |
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