Gala Galaction

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Galaticon, first from left (before 1935)
Omul unei lumi noi ("Man of a New World"), portrait from Gala Galaction by Nicolae Tonitza (1920)

Gala Galaction (born April 16, 1879 in Dideşti as Grigorie Pişculescu ; died March 8, 1961 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian theologian of the Romanian Orthodox Church , writer and Christian socialist activist . Unlike most of his contemporaries, he called for tolerance towards Judaism. Galaction is assigned to the gemanophile spectrum of Romanian literature.

Galaction studied theology at the University of Chernivtsi from 1904 to 1909 .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Lucian Boia: The Germanophiles: the Romanian elite at the beginning of the First World War  (= forum: Romania). Frank & Timme, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-7329-0115-9 , p. 213.
  2. ↑ Universities in Eastern Central Europe: Between Church, State and Nation - socio-historical and political developments , Peter Wörster, Dorotehee M. Goeze (eds.) (= Peoples, states and cultures in East Central Europe), Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3- 486-58494-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Galaction, gala
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pișculescu, Grigorie (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian theologian, writer and Christian socialist activist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Dideşti
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1961
Place of death Bucharest