Ioan or Ion Bianu (1856 or 1857[a] – February 13, 1935) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian philologist and bibliographer. The son of a peasant family from Transylvania, he completed high school in Blaj, where he became a disciple of Timotei Cipariu and Ioan Micu Moldovan [ro]. As a youth, he espoused Romanian nationalism, and came into conflict with the Austro-Hungarian authorities, before finally emigrating to the Romanian Old Kingdom in 1876. There, he attended the University of Bucharest, later joining the faculty, where he taught Romanian literary history. He was affiliated with the Romanian Academy Library for over half a century, transforming the institution from the meager state in which he found it, and overseeing a five-fold increase of its collection. He helped author two important multi-volume works detailing early books and manuscripts from his country, and was a founder of library and information science in his adoptive country. Near the end of his life, struggling with deafness, Bianu withdrew from the Library in favor of his friend Radu R. Rosetti, but went on to serve as president of the Romanian Academy.
Bianu's scholarship was doubled by his work as an organizer in the field, and, especially after 1880, by a participation in political intrigues. He was a disciple of Dimitrie Sturdza, joining the latter's National Liberal Party and canvassing support in academia. Bianu continued to agitate among the Transylvanian Romanians, but, by 1896, both he and Sturdza had turned moderate on the national issue, and favored a rapprochement with Austria-Hungary. As such, Bianu was a "Germanophile" during World War I, meaning that he criticized Romania's alliance with the Entente Powers. He remained in German-occupied territory following the fall of Bucharest, but was spared persecution upon the end of war.
Ioan or Ion Bianu (1856 or 1857[a] – February 13, 1935) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian philologist and bibliographer. The son of a peasant family...
literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Bucharest, where IoanBianu was one of his professors, and graduated in 1906. Early on, he developed...
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Madalena de Martel Patrício and Elise Richter. The authors Henri Barbusse, IoanBianu, Arthur Hoey Davis (known as Steele Rudd), Clarence Day, Ella Loraine...
Grassic Gibbon, Scottish novelist (peritonitis, born 1901) February 13 IoanBianu, Romanian librarian, bibliographer and linguist (uremia, born 1856 or...
Academy. Simonescu joined an editorial team headed by senior scholars IoanBianu and Nicolae Cartojan, and, in the 1930s and 1940s, became a major contributor...
Bucharest by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, who answers a request made by IoanBianu, Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea, Alexandru Vlahuță and others. The first...
during the Battle of Mărășești. His professors included Ovid Densusianu, IoanBianu, Ion Aurel Candrea [ro], and Dimitrie Onciul. His first published work...
Romanian philologist, bibliographer and member of the Romanian Academy IoanBianu acquired Ucuta's work from this person, after which it was studied several...
held the university's concise literature course, replacing Professor IoanBianu. Iorga's circle was joined by researcher Constantin C. Giurescu, son of...
to the magazine, as were Constantin Banu, IoanBianu, Gheorghe Gh. Mârzescu, Constantin Alimănișteanu, Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești, and some of the...
Military School in Bucharest. During his studies, he was befriended by IoanBianu, who introduced him to the literary circles of Bucharest. Upon graduation...
academics of diverse backgrounds: Ovid Densusianu, Dumitru Evolceanu and IoanBianu. Out of this environment, Perpessicius emerged with a personal style,...
owned by George Diamandy. From December 1888, encouraged by historians IoanBianu and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Rosetti published his first works of genealogy...
an agent of influence for the German Empire. The Germanophile figure IoanBianu specifically noted that Fleva had received 100,000 lei from German intelligence...
on occupied territory, and, in a letter to the Germanophile academic IoanBianu, spoke about the need to popularize revolutionary ideas among this particular...
the Bulgarian translation, Cronica lui Constantin Manasses, by Ioan Bogdan and I. Bianu, Bucharest, 1922. Constantine Manases, Chronicle Archived 2022-10-08...
Romanian capital. His professors included Titu Maiorescu, Nicolae Iorga, IoanBianu, Dimitrie Onciul and Simion Mehedinți. Ovid Densusianu was particularly...
graduated first in his class in 1908. His professors included Titu Maiorescu, IoanBianu, and Ovid Densusianu; their influence on his intellectual development...
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