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Mihail_Diaconescu (b. Priboieni, Muscel, now Argeș, 8 November 1937 - d. Bucharest, 25 March 2020) was a Romanian novelist, essayist, literary critic and historian, art critic, philosopher, theologian and university professor, nominated for the Prize Nobel Prize for Literature (2013).

Biography

Childhood

Nicknamed by the Eminescu expert Nicolae Georgescu "The Magician from Vulturești Arges" (Dușan 33),[1] Mihail Diaconescu was born on the day of Saints Archangels Michael and Gabriel, November 8, 1937 in Priboieni commune, Muscel county,[2] today Argeș and died on the day of the Annunciation, March 25, 2020[3], in Bucharest.

The writer's ancestors were Orthodox peasants from Făgăraș who crossed the mountains to Argeș because of the religious and ethnic intolerance they were subjected to by the Austro-Hungarian Empire

The father of the future man of culture was called Aurelian and he was a priest and teacher in the commune of Vulturești, Argeș, having a parish at the Bătiesti church between 1927-1972, with an interruption in the period 1942-1953. [4] From him he inherited the leaning towards theology, history and philosophy, and from his mother, Aurelia, the gift of a storyteller.

To the most important human and moral models, to the parents who gave him life and guided him, Mihail Diaconescu dedicated the History of daco romane literature: "Iterum/Aureliano presbytero et Aureliae/parentibus optimis/omnis meae vitae/sapientissimis magistris/summa cum gratitudine/ab imo pectore et iucundae/pro eorum memoria/hanc litterarem parvitatem/dedicavi ”(Again/to the priest Aurelian and Aurelia/the best parents/the wisest teachers of my whole life/with the most chosen gratitude/from the deep heart and with joy/to their memory/I dedicate/this insignificant book of literature).[5]

"The quality of being the son of a country priest directed my entire evolution as a man and a writer, my entire formation in stages. Before being a writer and university lecturer, I am the son of my father and the son of the village of Vulturești in Muscel", said Professor Mihail Diaconescu.[6]

In Vulturești ARGES, Mihail Diaconescu lived for a long time, including in adulthood during vacations and in his free time when he wrote many of his books and works, being very attracted by both the charm of the place and the spiritual and traditionalist atmosphere that inspired him to create the work its.

Studies

Mihail Diaconescu graduated from the Gheorghe Șincai High School in Bucharest (1955) and the Faculty of Philology of the University of Bucharest (1960). Later, he obtained the title of doctor in philology at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University in Iasi with a thesis on Gib Mihăescu (1972), published the following year[7].

Professional activity

After finishing the faculty, Mihail Diaconescu worked as a teacher at the High School of St. O. Iosif from Rupea, Brașov county (1960-1964), museographer at the Brașov History Museum and editor at the Drum nou cultural section in the same city. Between 1965-1985 he taught at the Pedagogical Institute in Pitesti.

For three years (1972-1975) he was a guest lecturer at the Institute of Romance Studies of Humboldt University, Germany. Starting from 1985, he worked as a senior scientific researcher at the George Călinescu Institute of History and Literary Theory of the Romanian Academy, so that after 1995 he taught again to students at the Faculty of Sociology, Psychology and Pedagogy of the University of Bucharest, the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Orthodox Theology of the University of Pitesti, as well as at Spiru Haret University in Bucharest.

In 1966, he founded the magazine Argeș in Pitesti and was co-founder of the magazines Astra and Noua revistă in Sibiu, also in 1999 for the Spiru Haret University Annals, Philology, Language and Romanian Literature Series.[8]

Literary and scientific activity

Overview

Mihail Diaconescu is recognized as an encyclopedic spirit, promoter of a humanism based on the values of Orthodoxy.

He was a member of the Writers' Union (1965)[9] in recognition of his literary and scientific work.

Specialists agree on the fact that Mihail Diaconescu was the most respected connoisseur of the history of ancient Romanian literature, also known as Daco-Romanian, Old Romanian or Proto-Romanian literature.[10] He is the author of the books Istoria literaturii dacoromane, Bucharest, Publisher Alcor, 1999 and Anthology of literature daco romană, Bucharest, Publisher Corifeu, 2003.

For his achievements, Mihail Diaconescu was named the Titan of culture by Metropolitan Irineu of Oltenia,[11] and the theologian Dumitru Stăniloae considers him a beginner of our future writing.[12]

Mihail Diaconescu is considered an integral writer [13] because throughout his career he wrote poems, literary criticism, dramas, tragedies, plays, film scripts and chronicles, reports, studies and scientific communications.

He stated that he pursued the creation of a literature with a program that highlights the historical and moral values of the Romanians in the country