38 Facts About Eraclie Sterian

Eraclie Sterian was a publisher of textbooks and literary works, including Demetriade's "Ali's Dream", and author of dramas.

Eraclie Sterian was survived by his son, the writer-politician Paul Sterian, and by his daughter-in-law, painter Margareta Sterian; his granddaughter was actress Raluca Sterian.

The Sterians were widely thought of as Jewish, and, more specifically, Eraclie was rumored to have been baptized a Christian from Judaism.

In parallel to his work in conventional medicine, Eraclie Sterian was becoming a follower of Sebastian Kneipp's water cures.

Eraclie Sterian published his own introduction on the subject, including a biography of Kneipp, in 1904.

From November 1,1905, to May 7,1911, Eraclie Sterian put out a weekly magazine, first as Medicina Populara, then as Medicul Poporului.

Eraclie Sterian began writing occasional articles for Familia, including a 1906 piece on life extension, advertising iodine-based cures.

Eraclie Sterian joined the Conservative League, a pressure group within the nationwide Conservative Party.

Also in 1905, Eraclie Sterian had become a grassroots organizer of the Conservatives.

Eraclie Sterian was active in the Blue Ward of Bucharest, alongside Demetriade; in February 1906, they both issued a call for reunification between the Conservative mainstream and the Junimea splinter group, noting that the latter has absorbed some of the most talented cadres.

At the time, Eraclie Sterian publicly referred to the Synod as manipulated by "atheists" and "grave sinners".

Eraclie Sterian believed that recluse male youth were driven into compulsive self-stimulation by "lack of exercise, lack of fresh air, [and by] reading sensual stories and novels", as well as by oxalic acid as found in chocolate.

Eraclie Sterian thought that chronic male masturbators could be recognized by their "pervasive scent of sperm", and by mannerisms, such as laughing for no apparent reason.

Eraclie Sterian claimed to have cured thousands of "ephebes" with iodine syrup and injections of cacodylic acid.

Eraclie Sterian used similar treatments for impotence, where he recommended electroconvulsive therapy.

Eraclie Sterian objected, arguing that Quinton had failed to sterilize the water before use.

Eraclie Sterian was present for the massive Conservative and Conservative-Democratic rally of April 1910, which openly challenged political domination by the National Liberal Party, and allegedly included calls to violence against its leaders.

However, just weeks after the 1911 legislative election, which gave the Conservatives a majority in Parliament, Eraclie Sterian led the inner-party opposition to the Romanian Premier, Carp.

Eraclie Sterian became noted, and ridiculed, for his urging the populist leader Nicolae Fleva to join that party.

Eraclie Sterian had rejoined by December 1913, but still took up that complaint in front of his party colleagues at a local congress, and left the room in protest.

Eraclie Sterian was co-opted as a medical expert by the Romanian Army bulletin, Buletinul Armatei si Marinei, and wrote for the nationally circulated weekly Saptamana Politica si Culturala.

Eraclie Sterian hypothesized that modern man was an ape species that had suffered adaptation to syphilis, which, in his reading, meant increased intelligence.

Eraclie Sterian argued that, being impossible to sweep clean, asphalt created unhygienic dust, and warned that asphalt roads had a serious risk of structural collapse.

Eraclie Sterian carried medical experiments on soldiers with massive hemorrhage, injecting them with seawater.

Eraclie Sterian earned distinction with his work in combating the disease, publishing his personal observations of the disease in 1918, when other articles of his saw print in Ionescu-Caion's magazine, Cronicarul.

Eraclie Sterian asked the PNL to endorse legislative proposals that would chase out delinquent tenants; this proposal was met with laughter from those in the audience, one of whom exposed Sterian for his practice of hiking rents.

Eraclie Sterian interrupted this activity to focus entirely on his research, and, on October 15,1920, left for Paris to continue his experiments under Victor Morax's supervision.

When Eraclie Sterian regained Bucharest in mid-1923, it was with assurances that his serum would be mass-produced by the Pasteur Institute.

Eraclie Sterian made a brief return to politics following the Great Depression, when he founded the activist Association of Mortgaged Owners and Debtors.

Eraclie Sterian was a minor candidate in the June 1931 general elections, seconding Florescu on the LCC list for Ilfov County.

The national group was dissolved by September 1933, when Eraclie Sterian was recruited by the Guard for the Defense of Private Property, presided upon by former LCC chairman Eftimie Antonescu.

In late 1933, Eraclie Sterian was engaged in a protracted legal battle with the physicians' corps, after refusing to fill out his application under the provision of new laws regulating that profession.

Over those years, Paul Eraclie Sterian had surpassed his father's renown, becoming one of the leading poets of the Gandirea circle, as well as a noted economist, sociologist, and diplomat.

Eraclie Sterian may have joined the fascist Iron Guard at some point in the early-to-mid 1930s and was alleged to be hosting shooting practice for its members on one of Eraclie's properties.

The regime adopted hard-line antisemitic policies, and Paul Eraclie Sterian was tasked with auctioning off confiscated Jewish property.

At that late stage of his life, Eraclie Sterian Sr returned to publishing under the pen name Ave Caesar, with Incercari de etimologie.

Eraclie Sterian restated his belief in seawater injections, and argued for autotransfusion in the treatment of low back pain, angina, adenitis, boils, and various other afflictions.

Eraclie Sterian died in 1948, just as Romania was entering a period of communist rule.