27 Facts About Titu Maiorescu

Titu Maiorescu represented Romania at the Peace Conference in Bucharest that ended the Second Balkan War.

Titu Maiorescu opposed Romania's entry in World War I against Germany, but he nevertheless refused to collaborate with the German army after it had occupied Bucharest.

Titu Liviu Maiorescu was born in Craiova, on 15 February 1840.

Titu Maiorescu worked at a teacher in Cernauti, Craiova, Iasi, Bucharest and he remained a bright personality of that epoch of formation for the Romanian modern educational system.

Ioan Titu Maiorescu became an inspector for the schools of Oltenia, then he worked as a teacher at the Central School of Craiova.

Meanwhile, his family, consisting of his wife, Maria, born Popasu and his two children, Emilia and Titu Maiorescu, travelled to Bucharest, Brasov, Sibiu and Blaj, staying in Brasov for a long while and there, the future critic attended grade fifth at the Romanian gymnasium.

Between 1846 and 1848 Titu Maiorescu attended the primary school in Craiova.

In December 1848, under the leadership of Avram Iancu, Ioan Titu Maiorescu's family arrived in Blaj and then in Brasov.

Titu Maiorescu continued primary school between 1848 and 1850 at Protodeacon Iosif Barac's School.

Between 1850 and 1851, after finishing primary school, Titu Maiorescu was enlisted at the Romanian Gymnasium from Schei-Brasov, a gymnasium founded in 1850 through his uncle Ioan Popazu's endeavour.

Titu Maiorescu attended grade fifth at the Romanian gymnasium from Brasov and met Anton Pann, who left him an ineffaceable impression.

In September 1851 the Titu Maiorescu family settled in Vienna, where his father was working within the Ministry of Justice.

Titu Maiorescu's notes are a good source of knowing Maiorescu's personality.

Titu Maiorescu's success from 1858, when he graduated first in his class at the Theresianum Academy, was a guerdon of all his efforts and strong will.

Titu Maiorescu was very eager to obtain his university, but his eagerness did not affect his demureness in his studies; the foundations of Maiorescu's extremely solid culture were established during that period.

Titu Maiorescu then prepared his doctorate on the thesis: The Relation.

Titu Maiorescu taught pedagogy, Romanian Grammar, Psychology and Composition there.

Between 1863 and 1864 Titu Maiorescu taught philosophy at the Philology University of Iasi.

When he returned to Romania, at the end of 1861, Titu Maiorescu was eager to contribute to the progress of the recently formed state, after the Union of 1859, of the cultural and political life, of a European level.

At that time, when the Union was done and personalities of fresh energies and cultured people were needed, people who were educated in Western Universities, Titu Maiorescu had an early ascent, from his youth, as he was a university professor at 22 years old, a dean at 23 and a rector at the same age, then he became an academician at 27, a deputy at 30, then a minister at age 34.

Titu Maiorescu would become a member of the Macedo-Romanian Cultural Society.

Titu Maiorescu founded it alongside his friends I Negruzzi, Petre P Carp, V Pogor and Th.

Titu Maiorescu was representing the new generation, the junimist generation, which had a new conception on social and Romanian cultural life.

Titu Maiorescu was seldom reproached for not having spent enough time on writing literary works but his work as a literary critic profoundly marks one of the most lusty epochs in the history of Romanian literature: the period of the great classics.

The role of Junimea society and of Titu Maiorescu himself is linked to the creation and the assertion in the public's conscience of writers like Eminescu, Creanga, Caragiale, Slavici, Duiliu Zamfirescu and others.

The help that Titu Maiorescu gave to the writers from the circle of Junimea and to his disciples and even to his adversary, Dobrogeanu-Gherea, in an important moment of his life, unfolded a man of great and at the same time discreet generosity.

The lines that Titu Maiorescu wrote to Eminescu when Eminescu was ill and was worried about the fees for his boarding at the sanatorium from Ober-Dobling prove that Titu Maiorescu was endowed with an admirable gentleness of heart:.