17 Facts About Virgil Nemoianu

Virgil Nemoianu is generally described as a specialist in "comparative literature" but this is a somewhat limiting label, only partially covering the wider range of his activities and accomplishments.

Virgil Nemoianu's thinking places him at the intersection of neo-Platonism and neo-Kantianism, which he turned into an instrument meant to qualify, channel, and tame the asperities, as well as what he regarded the impatient accelerations and even absurdities of modernity and post-modernity.

Virgil Nemoianu chose early on to write within the intellectual horizons outlined by Goethe and Leibniz and has continued to do so throughout his life.

In 1949 Virgil Nemoianu returned to Bucharest, graduated from the elite Titu Maiorescu High School in 1956 and obtained a college degree in English language and literature from the University of Bucharest in 1961.

Virgil Nemoianu gained permission to travel to the United States, defected and obtained a doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of California, San Diego in 1971.

Once he obtained his doctorate, Virgil Nemoianu taught at the Universities of Cambridge and London, UC Berkeley, Cincinnati, and The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, as well as, in a visiting capacity, at the University of Amsterdam.

Virgil Nemoianu has been contributing editor or board member on more than 20 scholarly or literary journals in North America, Europe, and Asia.

Virgil Nemoianu has participated in three dozen scholarly conferences, some of which he organized himself and in others of which he chaired sessions, in North America, Africa, Europe, Oceania, and Asia.

Virgil Nemoianu was active as a collaborator to Radio Free Europe, the Voice of America and the Romanian Section of the BBC on Romanian issues, an activity continued in the 1990s through articles in the Romanian media.

Virgil Nemoianu has argued constantly, though in different contexts and using different examples, that without a sense and grasp of the beautiful, human life would be radically impoverished and perhaps its very survival might be endangered.

The fourth is that the "Romantic age" was a fundamental turning point in human history, the period in which durable images and thinking models were devised as a response to the consciousness of a globalization of human affairs and an acceleration of history; Virgil Nemoianu repeatedly used an examination of this age as an analogy to contemporary events.

Virgil Nemoianu expanded the use of the period concept of "Biedermeier" for later Romanticism in Europe as a whole and emphasized its vast importance for later historical and cultural developments.

Virgil Nemoianu tried to merge his aesthetic, religious, philosophical and political view in a volume devoted to the contemporary age.

Virgil Nemoianu's essays have been translated into German, Hungarian, Spanish, and Georgian, among other languages.

Virgil Nemoianu has published translations of both poetry and prose.

Virgil Nemoianu has been married to Anca since 1969.

Anca Virgil Nemoianu received a PHD from the University of California, Berkeley and teaches linguistics.