Ioan Alexandru Lapedatu (; July 6, 1844 – March 28, 1878) was an ethnic Romanian

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poet, prose writer and newspaper contributor. Born in Colun, Sibiu County, in the Transylvania region, his parents Alexa and Ana (''née'' Panga) were peasants. He attended primary school in a nearby

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, followed by the Roman Catholic High School in Sibiu from 1860 to 1868. He received a scholarship from

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to study philology at the University of Paris, which he did from 1868 to 1870, followed by the Free University of Brussels. He received a doctorate in philology and literature in 1871. A renowned professor of classical languages at Brașov's Orthodox High School, he came to be considered among the leading teachers in Transylvania. His first verses, which he wrote while in high school, appeared in ''Aurora română''; he later contributed to magazines both in his native province and in the Romanian Old Kingdom: ''Albina Pindului'', '' Familia'', ''Revista literară și științifică'', ''Timpul'', ''Traian''. He edited ''Orientul latin'' from 1874 to 1875 and ''Albina Carpaților'' from 1877 to 1878. He sometimes used the pseudonyms Narcis and Nouraș. He published two volumes: ''Încercări în literatură'' in 1874 and ''Asupra situațiunii'' in 1877. The short fiction he wrote in periodicals, particularly in ''Albina Carpaților'', was published in the two-volume ''Nuvele istorice'' (1905–1906).Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 828-29. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. He was married twice; in 1876, his second wife bore twin sons Alexandru I. and Ion.Stănuța Crețu, ''Dicționarul literaturii române de la origini pînă la 1900'', p. 486. Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1979 He is buried in Brașov’s Groaveri cemetery.Description of Groaveri Church
at the Brașov archpriest’s district site

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lapedatu, Ioan 1844 births 1878 deaths People from Sibiu County Romanian Austro-Hungarians Free University of Brussels (1834–1969) alumni Romanian schoolteachers Romanian male poets Romanian male short story writers Romanian short story writers Romanian magazine editors 19th-century Romanian poets 19th-century short story writers 19th-century male writers Burials at Groaveri cemetery