Dimitrie Găzdaru

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Dimitrie Găzdaru (born January 18, 1897 in Grivița, Ialomița district , † June 8, 1991 in Buenos Aires ) was a Romanian Romance scholar and linguist who lived in Argentina from 1946.

life and work

Găzdaru (also: Gazdaru ) studied Romance philology in Iași (graduated in 1922). After completing military service, he became Alexandru Philippide's assistant and received his doctorate in 1928 at the University of Iași with the thesis Descendenții demonstrativului latinescalian în limba românească (Iași 1929). For further studies he stayed in Rome and with Leo Spitzer at the University of Marburg . From 1930 he was a university lecturer in Iași, from 1940 briefly at the University of Bucharest .

After the Iron Guard putsch was suppressed by Ion Antonescu in January 1941, he left Romania and went via Rome (1942–1946) to Buenos Aires , where he taught at various universities (including the Pontifical Catholic University of Argentina ) as a professor of Romance studies from 1949 . In 1968 he founded the magazine Románica at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata .

Other works

  • Originea și răspândirea motivului "amărâtă turturea" în literaturile romanice , Iași 1934 (The motif of the sad turtledove [Mourning Dove, Tourterelle triste] in Romanesque literature)
  • Episcopatul Românesc din America in lumina canoanelor si a istoriei , Buenos Aires 1957
  • Qué es la lingüística , Buenos Aires 1966
  • (Ed.) Controversias y documentos lingüísticos sobre las leyes fonéticas , La Plata 1967
  • Ensayos de filología y lingüística románicas , La Plata 1969
  • Aventuras del latín y orígenes de las lenguas románicas , La Plata 1970

literature

  • Estudios dedicados a Demetrio Gazdaru , ed. by Jorge Diaz Vélez, 4 vols., La Plata 1972-1975 (Romanica 5-8)
  • Nydia GB de Fernández Pereira, Vida y obra de un maestro. Demetrio Gazdaru y bibliografía de sus publicaciones, in: Romanica 5, 1972, pp. 5-16
  • Omagiu profesorului D. Gazdaru. Miscellanea din studiile sale inedite sau rare , Freiburg im Breisgau 1974

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personal data
SURNAME Găzdaru, Dimitrie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gazdaru, Demetrio; Gazdaru, Dumitru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian Romance studies and linguist
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1897
PLACE OF BIRTH Grivița, Ialomița County
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1991
Place of death Buenos Aires