Claudio Isopescu

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Claudio Isopescu (* 18th April 1894 in Frătăuţii Vechi , Suceava County ; † 1. April 1956 in Rome ) was a Romanian linguist , Italianist, Rumänist and Hispanist, who worked mainly in Italy.

life and work

Claudiu (later: Claudio) Isopescu went to school in Socha ( Suceava ) and studied from 1912 to 1919 in Chernivtsi and Bucharest . From 1920 to 1923 he taught Italian and German at the grammar school "Matei Basarab" and at the commercial academy in Bucharest. Then he went to the Romanian School in Rome on a scholarship. In 1925 he began teaching at the University of Rome , first as a lecturer for Romanian language and literature, from 1929 as a lecturer, from 1936 as a professor.

Isopescu published mainly on the history of cultural relations between Romania and the rest of the world, primarily with Italy.

Works (selection)

  • (Translator with A. Silvestri Giorgi) Ion Luca Caragiale , Una lettera smarrita (O scrisoare pierdută), Perugia / Venice 1929 (preface by Giulio Bertoni )
  • (Ed.) Documenti inediti della fine del Cinquecento , Bucharest 1929
  • La stampa periodica romeno-italiana in Romania e in Italia , Rome 1937–1946
  • Saggi italo-romeno-ispanici , Rome 1943
  • Il poeta Romolo Scriban e l'Italia , Rome 1943
  • Il diplomatico studioso americano Eugene Schuyler (1840-1890) ei Romeni. Con uno sguardo sulla filologia romena in periodici inglesi ed americana del '800 , Freiburg im Breisgau 1954

literature

  • Claudio Isopescu, Mesager al spiritualităţii româneşti in Italia. 1. Corespondenţă (1926-1942) , ed. by Dimitrie Vatamaniuc, Bucharest 2006

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personal data
SURNAME Isopescu, Claudio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Isopescu, Claudiu; Isopescu, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian Romanist, Italianist, Romanist and Hispanist who worked mainly in Italy
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Frătăuții Vechi , Suceava County
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1956
Place of death Rome