Gheorghe Chivu (born 7 October 1947) is a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

n linguist and philologist, university professor and member of the Romanian Academy since 2023.Alegeri la Academia Română. Membri titulari și corespondenți
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Ilfov County Ilfov () is the county that surrounds Bucharest, the capital of Romania. It used to be largely rural, but, after the fall of Communism, many of the county's villages and communes developed into high-income commuter towns, which act like suburbs ...

, and attended high school in nearby

Snagov Snagov (population: 7,272) is a commune, located north of Bucharest, in Ilfov County, Muntenia, Romania. According to the 2011 census, 92% of the population is ethnic Romanian. The commune is composed of five villages: Ciofliceni, Ghermănești ...

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1947 births Living people People from Ilfov County Titular members of the Romanian Academy University of Bucharest alumni Academic staff of the University of Bucharest {{Romania-stub