Nae Ionescu

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Nae Ionescu , actually Nicolae C. Ionescu , (born June 4 . Jul / 16 June 1890 greg. In Braila ; † 15. March 1940 in Bucharest ) was a Romanian philosopher, Orthodox theologian, university professor and journalist. He was the teacher of Mircea Eliade , Constantin Noica Mircea Vulcănescu , Mihail Sebastian , Emil Cioran and Eugène Ionesco . Nae Ionescu is considered the founder of Romanian existentialism, known as trairism (Rum. Traire = experience), a philosophical movement that was characterized by irrationalism, mysticism, messianism and radicalism.

Life

Nae Ionescu attended school in his hometown of Brăila and began his studies, but then moved to Bucharest to the Faculty of Literature and Philosophy in Bucharest and continued his studies in Göttingen. At the beginning of the world war he is in Romania. On November 25, 1915, he married Margarete Helene Fotino. In January 1916 they go to Germany together. After Romania entered the war in August 1916, they had to go to the Celle Castle prison camp (Hanover). His first son, Roger, was born in the camp in early 1917. The second son, Razvan, was born in June 1918. In 1919 he defended his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Munich on "Logistics as an attempt at a new foundation for mathematics" with Bäumker . Ionescu was later professor of logic, the history of logic and metaphysics at the University of Bucharest and director of the daily newspaper Cuvântul (German: "The Word") (1929–1933). A large number of articles on theology, literature, economics and politics by him and later by his students have been published in this national orthodox journal. As a student of Husserl , he placed experience at the center of his thinking. In Romania he made Nietzsche better known.

He was arrested several times because of right-wing extremist beliefs and had been under house arrest since 1939. He died on March 15, 1940 in his villa in Băneasa in the presence of the pianist Cella Delavrancea . Rumors of political murder soon spread about his death, but there is no evidence of this.

Ionescu did not join the “ Iron Guard ”, but had a lasting influence on the national-conservative Romanian elite. Particularly noteworthy are its irrationalism and its mysticism , which is embedded in the orthodox rejection of the West and the Jews. For Ionescu and his students, Christianity and Judaism are mutually exclusive. So he became a pioneer of the Romanian Holocaust . In keeping with his philosophy of life, there are hardly any major works by him. It was mainly received by the Romanians in exile (Paris). In communist Romania his works were on the index, so that Ionescu was only rediscovered in Romania in the 1990s.

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Remarks

  1. ^ Simion Dănilă, Friedrich Nietzsche's Reception in Romania, in: Nietzsche Studies, Vol. 34, Berlin, New York, 2005 ISBN 3-11-018262-9 , pp. 217–245
  2. ^ Hannelore Müller, The early Mircea Eliade, LIT Verlag Berlin-Münster-Vienna-Zurich-London 2004, p. 104
  3. ↑ Ionescu: "Prefaţă" in Mihai Sebastian, De două mii de ani (Bucharest: Nationala-Ciornei, 1934), p XXVIII
  4. ^ The report of the International Commission on the Holocaust in Romania was submitted to President Ion Iliescu in Bucharest on November 11, 2004
personal data
SURNAME Ionescu, Nae
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ionescu, Nicolae C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Brăila
DATE OF DEATH March 15, 1940
Place of death Bucharest