Ion Heliade Rădulescu (January 6, 1802 – April 27, 1872) was a Wallachian, later Romanian academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician. He is considered one of the foremost champions of Romanian culture from the first half of the 19th century. Adopting an original form of conservatism, he emphasized the role of the aristocratic boyars in Romanian history.
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Ion Heliade Rădulescu (January 6, 1802 – April 27, 1872) was a Wallachian, later Romanian academic, Romantic and Classicist poet, essayist, memoirist, short story writer, newspaper editor and politician. He is considered one of the foremost champions of Romanian culture from the first half of the 19th century. Adopting an original form of conservatism, he emphasized the role of the aristocratic boyars in Romanian history. He was rewarded for supporting the Ottoman Empire and clashed with the radical wing of the 1848 revolutionaries. A Romantic nationalist landowner siding with moderate liberals, he was forced to spend several years in exile. He died in Bucharest, where he was a teacher at Saint Sava College, which he helped reopen. In 1827, he and Dinicu Golescu founded SoŢa românească,ęă românę, which proposed its program through its program of literarneas. He later became involved in cultural policies, and attempted to encourage the establishment of virtually all localities in Wallachia, in addition to the creation of Craiova, Soţa and Soieta. He also became a prolific translator of foreign literature into Romanian, and was also the author of books on linguistics and history. His last work was a biography of Gheorghe Lazăr, in which he wrote about his time as a Greek scholar in the 1820s and 1830s.
He wrote about the history of the Romanians, and how they came to be known as “Romanians” and “Romans” He was a founding member and first president of the Romanian Academy, and later served as its president. He had a major role in shaping the modern Romanian language, but caused controversy when he advocated the massive introduction of Italian neologisms into the Romanian lexis. He helped establish the Romanian National Museum, which is now the National Museum of Romanian History and Culture, in Cluj-Herzegov, Romania. His son Ilie Rędul Escu was a wealthy proprietor who served as the leader of a patrol unit during the 1810s, and Eufrosina Danielopol, who had been educated in Greek. The couple had a large garden in the Bucharest area, nearby Herăstrău, as well as of estates in the vicinity of Făgăraş and Gârbovi. After his early youth, Ion was the focus of his parents’ affectionate supervision. He taught himself reading in Romanian Cyrillic, and became an avid reader of popular novels, especially during his 1813 sojourn in Gârcovi. He studied under Gheorghie Lazęr’s supervision at the St Sava School. He then became the main teacher at the college, and opened an art class overseen by the Croat Carol Valştain, and, eventually, also opened a school for art.
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