HERTA MÜLLER - Nobel Prize in Literature 2009 - born Romania, residence at time of award Germany - "who, with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of prose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed"
Considered a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture.Constantin Brancusi is often regarded as the most important sculptor of the twentieth century, revolutionized the art of sculpture.
Anghel Saligny / / was a Romanian engineer, most famous for designing the Feteşti-Cernavodă railway bridge over the Danube, the longest bridge in Europe at that time
Nicolae Iorga / January 17, 1871 – November 27, 1940/ was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, poet and playwright. A child prodigy, polymath and polyglot, Iorga produced an unusually large body of scholarly works, consecrating his international reputation as a medievalist, Byzantinist, Latinist, Slavist, art historian and philosopher of history. Holding teaching positions at the University of Bucharest, the University of Paris and several other academic…
'Eugène Ionesco (born Eugen Ionescu, Romanian: 26 November 1909 – 28 March was a Romanian playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre.
Nicolae Grigorescu (b. 15th May 1838, Pitaru, Dâmboviţa County, d. 21st July 1907, Câmpina) is the first of the founders of modern Romanian painting, followed by Ion Andreescu and Ştefan Luchian, having become a symbol for the young generations of artists who, during the first decades of the 20th century, were striving to identify and bring to light the profoundly characteristic values of Romanian spirituality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaZ9DntRS-8
Lucian Blaga / 1895-1961/ was a commanding personality of the Romanian culture of the interbellum period. He was a philosopher and writer highly acclaimed for his originality, a university professor and a diplomat. He was born on 9 May 1895 in Lancrăm, near Alba Iulia, Romania
Alexandru Ioan Cuza Heidelberg / was Prince of Moldavia, Prince of Wallachia, and later Domnitor of the Romanian Principalities. He was a prominent figure of the Revolution of 1848 in Moldavia.
Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.
June Romanian president Nicolae Ceausescu - (left) and Queen Elizabeth II leaving Victoria Station, London for Buckingham Palace, at the start of his four-day state visit to Britain. (Photo by Mike Stephens/Central Press/Getty Images)
![Tristan Tzara born Samuel or Samy Rosenstock, also known as S. Samyro; April 16 [O.S. April 4] 1896 – December 25, 1963) was a Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performance artist. Also active as a journalist, playwright, literary and art critic, composer and film director, he was known best for being one of the founders and central figures of the anti-establishment Dada movement Man Ray photo - Tristan Tzara 1934](https://i.pinimg.com/736x/fa/f4/04/faf40494c00db788a519397b321498ac--art-history-timeline-tristan-tzara.jpg)
