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Feb 10, 1885 Drobeta Turnu Severin, Mehedinți County, Romania Died on 04 Jun 1961 (aged 76)
Romanian essayist, translator and writer
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About Alice Voinescu
- Alice Voinescu (1885–1961) was a Romanian writer, essayist, university professor, theatre critic and translator.
- She was the first Romanian woman to become a Doctor of Philosophy, which she did at the Sorbonne in 1913 in Paris.
- In 1922, she became a professor of theatrical history at what would become the Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bucharest, where she taught for over two decades.
- In 1948, she was removed from her department and spent a year and seven months in prisons in Jilava and Ghencea.
- After her detention, she was kept under house arrest in the village of Coste?ti near Târgu Frumos until 1954.
- Posthumously, her diary covering the interwar and communist period of Romania's history was discovered and published in 1997.
