Romanian journalist, literary critic, novelist and fascist militant
Elena (Hélène) Bacaloglu
Bacaloglu in 1933
Born
December 19, 1878 Bucharest
Died
1947 or 1949 (aged 69–71) Bucharest
Occupation
journalist, critic, political militant
Nationality
Romanian
Period
1903–1923
Genre
essay, psychological novel
Literary movement
Impressionism
Elena A. Bacaloglu, also known as Bakaloglu, Bacaloglu-Densusianu, Bacaloglu-Densușeanu etc. (Francized Hélène Bacaloglu; December 19, 1878 – 1947 or 1949), was a Romanian journalist, literary critic, novelist and fascist militant. Her career in letters produced an introduction to the work of Maurice Maeterlinck (1903), several other critical essays, and two novels. She married and divorced writer Radu D. Rosetti, then Ovid Densusianu, the Symbolist poet and literary theorist.
Bacaloglu lived most of her later life in the Kingdom of Italy, where she affiliated with the literary and political circles. Her subsequent work included campaigns for Pan-Latinism and Romanian irredentism. This second career peaked upon the close of World War I, when Bacaloglu became involved with Italian fascism. Introduced to Benito Mussolini and Benedetto Croce, she helped transplant fascism on Romanian soil. Her National Italo-Romanian Cultural and Economic Movement was a minor and heterodox political party, but managed to earn attention with its advocacy of political violence.
This classical Romanian fascist movement merged into the more powerful National Romanian Fascio, then reconstructed itself under Bacalogu's own leadership. It survived the troubles of 1923, but was disbanded by government order in 1925, and was entirely eclipsed by the Iron Guard. Shunned by Mussolini, Bacaloglu lived her final decades in relative obscurity, enmeshed in political intrigues. Her fascist ideas were taken up by some in her family, including her brother Sandi and her son Ovid O. Densusianu.
Elena A. Bacaloglu, also known as Bakaloglu, Bacaloglu-Densusianu, Bacaloglu-Densușeanu etc. (Francized Hélène Bacaloglu; December 19, 1878 – 1947 or 1949)...
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member of the Romanian Academy. Densusianu was briefly married to ElenaBacaloglu, who later came to admire fascism and organized the National Italo-Romanian...
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known as "The Prince of Naples". On 24 October 1896, he married Princess Elena of Montenegro. On 29 July 1900, at the age of 30, Victor Emmanuel acceded...
through the strong dynastic links between Italy and Montenegro, as Queen Elena of Italy was a daughter of the last Montenegrin king Nicholas I. The Italian-backed...
had demanded that the king end his relationship with his Jewish mistress Elena Lupescu. The legionnaires hated Lupescu, so when Grosu was forced to resign...
stationed in Gheorghe Râșcanu's townhouse; he answered to Colonel Victor Bacaloglu, a fellow writer. It was in these circumstances that he witnessed the...
was ensuring the safe departure into self-exile of Carol and his mistress Elena Lupescu, granting protection to the royal train when it was attacked by...
Kornetis, Kostis (2019). "Comparing the Transitions". In Cavallaro, Maria Elena; Kornetis, Kostis (eds.). Rethinking Democratisation in Spain, Greece and...
information regarding secret contacts between the Guard and the royal mistress, Elena Lupescu, as well as statements implicating Codreanu in the Duca assassination...
to Elena Ilinoiu, Codreanu clashed with Cuza for a second time and decided to defuse tensions by taking leave in France. Codreanu's wedding to Elena Ilinoiu...
d'Histoire de la Pharmacie, Vol. 20, Issue 80, 1932, pp. 199–200; Constantin Bacaloglu, "Al IX-lea congres internațional al Istoriei Medicinei", in Cele Trei...
Reportedly, in April 1935 Vaida had asked that the king's influential mistress, Elena Lupescu, be forced into exile, although his colleague Mirto was still widely...
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