Hristu Cândroveanu (5 February 1928 – 9 December 2013; ) was a

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n editor,

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, poet, prose writer and

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of Aromanian ethnicity. He published several works related to the Aromanians, led several Aromanian magazines and was involved in some Aromanian organizations.

Biography

Hristu Cândroveanu was born on 5 February 1928 in (), in

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(now in

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). He graduated from the Faculty of Philology at the

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on 1952. Following this, he became a

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-language teacher for several years in localities of the modern

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and Prahova

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as well as in the city of

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. In 1973, he began his career as a writer with his volume ''Poeme''. Throughout the years, Cândroveanu would publish a multitude of works related to the

Aromanians The Aromanians () are an Ethnic groups in Europe, ethnic group native to the southern Balkans who speak Aromanian language, Aromanian, an Eastern Romance language. They traditionally live in central and southern Albania, south-western Bulgari ...

, an

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to which he belonged. During the 80s, he was a

and editor at the

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''Tomis'', prestigious in Romanian Dobruja. He also became

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of the newspaper ''Livres roumains'' ("Romanian Books"), created and directed the Aromanian magazines ''Deșteptarea'' ("The Awakening") and ''Dimândarea'' ("The Will"), founded in 1992 the Dimândarea Părintească Aromanian Cultural Foundation, and also became president of the

Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society The Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society (, ) is an Aromanian cultural organization in Romania. It was founded on 23 September 1879, succeeding the Macedo-Romanian Committee established in 1860. The SCMR has the aim of preserving and developing the ...

. Cândroveanu held the stance that the Aromanians were not an ethnic group of their own, but part of the

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. He was critical of the fact that Romania, during the

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, had ignored the Aromanian population in the

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, which he said had catastrophic consequences for their schools, churches and cultural monuments. Cândroveanu died on 9 December 2013.

References

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Biography

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