Gheorghe Cardaș (1899 – 1983) was a

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n literary historian. Born in Drăgușeni,

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, his parents were Gheorghe Cardaș and his wife Amalia (''née'' Camondo), and he came from an intellectual family. He attended primary school in his native village and the nearby rural localities Topile and Siliștea. Cardaș then attended high school at Fălticeni (1913-1915),

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(1915-1916) and Roman (1917-1921). In 1924, he obtained a degree from the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University. He later took specialized courses on the history of Romanian literature at Bucharest and in comparative literature at the

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from 1926 to 1927. A high-level clerk at the Romanian Academy Library from 1921 to 1933, he was a teaching assistant at Bucharest University from 1932 to 1943 and a scientific researcher at the

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's history institute from 1950 to 1953; also a Member of the Writers' Union of Romania. From 1958 to 1964, under the communist regime, Cardaș was imprisoned at Jilava and Gherla. Cardaș' first published work consisted of folkloric texts that appeared in the Bârlad magazine ''Ion Creangă'' in 1916. He was an editor at ''Mișcarea literară'' (1924-1925), ''Albina'' (1921-1941) and the

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''Revista Liceului Internat'' (1934-1939). His contributions appeared in ''Adevărul literar și artistic'', ''Boabe de grâu'', ''

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'', ''Cugetul românesc'', ''Făt-Frumos'', ''Manuscriptum'', ''Mitropolia Olteniei'', ''Neamul românesc pentru popor'', ''Prietenii istoriei literare'', ''Revista de etnografie și folclor'', ''Revista istorică'', ''Revista macedo-română'', ''Universul literar'', ''Vestitorul satelor'' and '' Viața Românească''. Cardaș authored a compendium on the history of Romanian literature. He put together numerous anthologies with good judgment and philological rigor, prefacing them with detailed studies. He devoted a good part of his activity to document-based literary history. He was the first to publish two works by Ion Budai-Deleanu: the second variant of ''Țiganiada'' in 1925, and the poem ''Trei viteji'' in 1928. He supervised publication of document collections, alone (''Documente literare'', vol. I, 1971; vol. II, 1973) or together with

I. E. Torouțiu Ilie E. Torouțiu (June 17, 1888 – November 24, 1953) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian literary historian. Born into a poor peasant family in Solca, then part of Austrian-ruled Bukovina, he did well in primary school, and a teacher advised ...

(''Studii și documente literare'', vol. I, 1931). He also published collections featuring poems by

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu ( 26 February 1838 – ) was a Romanian writer and philologist, who pioneered many branches of Romanian philology and history. Life He was born Tadeu Hâjdeu in Cristineștii Hotinului (now Kerstentsi in Chernivtsi O ...

and the tales of Ion Creangă and Petre Ispirescu.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 277-78. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Cardas, Gheorghe 1899 births 1984 deaths People from Suceava County University of Bucharest alumni Romanian literary historians Romanian anthologists Inmates of Gherla prison Romanian prisoners and detainees