12 Facts About Eugen Lovinescu

Eugen Lovinescu was the father of Monica Lovinescu, and the uncle of Horia Lovinescu, Vasile Lovinescu, and Anton Holban.

Eugen Lovinescu was elected to the Romanian Academy posthumously, in 1991.

Eugen Lovinescu made his literary debut in the literary supplement of Adevarul, and became permanently featured in the periodical Epoca, as the author of pieces on Samanatorul writers.

At the time, Lovinescu was already taking a stand which would lead to the prolonged disputes with Nicolae Iorga and Garabet Ibraileanu.

Eugen Lovinescu obtained his doctorate in Paris for his work on Jean-Jacques Weiss, and an additional history on the accounts 19th century French travelers gave of Greece.

Eugen Lovinescu died in 1943 in Bucharest and was buried in the family crypt at the Gradini Cemetery in Falticeni.

Eugen Lovinescu opposed Garabet Ibraileanu's theory of selection, proposing instead the idea that creation and demand occupy the very same moment in time.

Eugen Lovinescu's analysis was backed by the views of Faguet, Jules Lemaitre, as well as Gabriel Tarde's notion of a group mind; it adhered to the esthetical tenets of Impressionism.

The main advocate of Modernism, Eugen Lovinescu rejected the preoccupation of Poporanism and the Samanatorul group had with rural themes, arguing in favour of novels with an urban setting.

Eugen Lovinescu's Sburatorul published works by a new generation of writers, realists to symbolists to early avant-garde: Camil Petrescu, Ion Barbu, Tudor Vianu, Liviu Rebreanu, Benjamin Fondane, Ilarie Voronca, Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu, and many others.

The polemic with Samanatorul extended over decades: Eugen Lovinescu is remembered for his rejection of Nicolae Iorga's thesis on the origin of the Romanian reignant Princes as an institution in Wallachia and Moldavia.

Eugen Lovinescu was a noted translator of works in Latin and Ancient Greek, as well as the author of Romanian language textbooks.