In 1956 Blaga was nominated for the Nobel Prize. Beginning in 1943 Blaga became editor of the annual, Saeculum.ĭismissed by the Communist regime from his university professor chair in 1948, Blaga worked as librarian for a branch of the History Institute of the Romanian Academy, where until 1960 he was only allowed to publish translations. That same year he returned to Romania, is made Professor of Philosophy of Culture at the University of Cluj. In 1938 he transfers to Bucharest and then Lisbon. At this time Blaga married and became press attaché to the Romanian legation in Warsaw and later transfered to Vienna.

The following year, to avoid serving in the Austro-Hungarian army, he began taking theology courses at the Siblu Orthodox Seminary, the moving to Vienna to study philosophy at the University of Vienna where his thesis titled, 'Culture and Cognition' earned him his PhD in 1920. In 1919 his first volume of poetry, Poemele Luminii (Poems of Light) was published. Until the age of four, though he could talk, he purportedly never uttered a word a period of his childhood that he later described as, 'under the sign of the incredible absence of word.' Blaga's first poems were published in 1910, followed four years later by his first philosophical article, 'Notes on intuition in Bergson.' Around this time he traveled to Italy, where he scoured libraries for books on philosophy.Īt the outset of the first World War, Blaga began theological studies at Sibiu, graduating in 1917. Born in Transylvania, his father died in 1908 leaving the family destitute and forcing Blaga to leave secondary school. Lucian Blaga (May 6, 1961) The ninth son of a parish priest, Blaga grew to become one of Romania's foremost poets and philosophers.

Poeţii by Lucian Blaga