How to Pronounce Petre P. Panaitescu
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Mar 11, 1900 Iași, Iași County, Romania Died on 14 Nov 1967 (aged 67)
Romanian literary historian
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About Petre P. Panaitescu
- Petre P.
- Panaitescu (March 11, 1900 – November 14, 1967) was a Romanian literary historian.
- A native of Ia?i, he spent most of his adult life in the national capital Bucharest, where he rose to become a professor at its main university.
- As such, he challenged various aspects of the dominant nationalist historiography.
- However, he also joined the ultra-nationalist Iron Guard, and headed the university during the movement's brief time in power.
- After the Guard was violently suppressed at the beginning of 1941, he lost his professorial position.
- When a communist-dominated government entered office in early 1945, he was arrested and imprisoned.
- Panaitescu was freed by the end of the year, the new authorities finding useful his theories of Slavic influence on Romania's national trajectory.
- He worked as a researcher in the latter part of his career, retiring in 1965, two years before his death.
