10 Facts About Liviu Rebreanu

Liviu Rebreanu's father had been a classmate of George Cosbuc's and was an amateur folklorist.

Liviu Rebreanu went to primary school in Major, where he was taught by his father, and then in Naszod and Beszterce, to military school at Sopron and then to the Ludovica Military Academy in Budapest.

Liviu Rebreanu worked as an officer in Gyula but resigned in 1908, and in 1909 illegally crossed the Southern Carpathians into Romania, and lived in Bucharest.

Liviu Rebreanu joined several literary circles, and worked as a journalist for Ordinea, then for Falanga literara si artistica.

Liviu Rebreanu's first published in 1912 with a volume of novellas gathered under the title Framantari.

In 1920 Liviu Rebreanu published his novel Ion, the first modern Romanian novel, in which he depicted the struggles over land ownership in rural Transylvania.

For Ion, Liviu Rebreanu received a Romanian Academy award; he became a full member of the institution in 1939.

Liviu Rebreanu's plan is to thus force her father to give him both the daughter and the fortune.

Liviu Rebreanu becomes a conscientious Austrian officer, he even contributes at the sentencing to death of a Czech officer, who had deserted the Austro-Hungarian army.

Liviu Rebreanu is caught and hanged, in much the same way as the Czech that he had helped condemn.