Petre V. Haneș (November 6, 1879–April 17, 1966) was a

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n literary historian. Born in

Călărași Călărași (), the capital of Călărași County in the Muntenia region, is situated in south-east Romania, on the banks of the Danube's Borcea branch, at about from the Bulgarian border and from Bucharest. It is one of six Romanian county se ...

, his parents were Vasile Haneș and his wife Maria (''née'' Leca). He attended Matei Basarab High School in

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, followed by the literature faculty of the

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. Later, in 1920, he received a doctorate from the same institution. After university, Haneș became a Romanian-language teacher at three schools in the capital city: Matei Basarab, Mihai Viteazul High School, and the pedagogical seminary. He offered free courses at the literature faculty as well. Within the educational system, he served as school inspector and was a permanent member of the Public Instruction Ministry's council, serving as secretary general in 1920. Haneș' first publication appeared in 1900 in ''Noua revistă română''. The author of studies on literary history, his work ran in ''Revista universitară'' (1900), ''Viața nouă'', ''

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'', ''Preocupări literare'' (where he was director from 1936 to 1938), ''Biserica ortodoxă română'' and ''Limbă și literatură''. In 1926, he founded a society for the friends of literary history. Late in life, he was active in the society of philological sciences. He published volumes featuring the works of

Alecu Russo Alecu Russo (17 March 1819 – 5 February 1859) was a Romanian writer, literary critic and publicist. Russo is credited with having discovered one of the most elaborate forms of the Romanian national folk ballad '' Miorița''. He was also a cont ...

Nicolae Bălcescu Nicolae Bălcescu () (29 June 181929 November 1852) was a Romanian Wallachian soldier, historian, journalist, and leader of the 1848 Wallachian Revolution. Early life Born in Bucharest to a family of low-ranking nobility, he used his mother ...

Grigore Alexandrescu Grigore Alexandrescu (; 22 February 1810, Târgoviște – 25 November 1885 in Bucharest) was a nineteenth-century Romanian poet and translator noted for his fables with political undertones. He founded a periodical, ''Albina Românească'' ...

Mihail Kogălniceanu Mihail Kogălniceanu (; also known as Mihail Cogâlniceanu, Michel de Kogalnitchan; September 6, 1817 – July 1, 1891) was a Romanian Liberalism, liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania on Octo ...

, and

Dinicu Golescu Dinicu Golescu (usual rendition of Constantin Radovici Golescu; 7 February 1777 – 5 October 1830), a member of the Golescu family of boyars, was a Wallachian Romanian man of letters, mostly noted for his travel writings and journalism. Bo ...

. Haneș was a conscientious and honest researcher who devoted equal attention to the various periods of Romanian literature. His books included ''Cântarea României'', 1900; ''Alexandru Russo'', 1901; ''Dezvoltarea limbii române în prima jumătate a sec. al XIX-lea'', 1904; ''Studii de literatură română'', 1910; ''Evangheliarul românesc din 1561 în conparațiune cu cel slavonesc'', 1913; ''Un călător englez despre români'', 1920; ''Scriitori basarabeni'', 1920; ''Studii literare'', 1925; ''Studii și cercetări'', 1927; ''Istoria literară în călătorii'', 1933; ''Genuri literare'', 1934; ''Scriitori basarabeni. 1850-1940'', 1942; and ''Vechile noastre cazanii: Coresi, Varlaam, Mânăstirea Dealu'', 1943. He also wrote a general history of the field, ''Istoria literaturii românești''; published in 1924, it also appeared in French in 1934.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 707–708. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. He died in 1966 in Bucharest and was buried in the city's Sfânta Vineri Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hanes, Petre 1879 births 1966 deaths People from Călărași University of Bucharest alumni Romanian schoolteachers Romanian literary historians Burials at Sfânta Vineri Cemetery Matei Basarab National College alumni