Ovidiu Creangă (February 14, 1921 – December 4, 2017) was a Romanian activist and author.[1] He served as an official of the Ministry of Economy (Romania) and taught at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.[2] He lived in Canada from 1982 until his death in late 2017.
Ovidiu Creangă | |
|---|---|
| Born | February 14, 1921 |
| Died | December 4, 2017 (aged 96) |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Alma mater | Politehnica University of Bucharest |
| Spouse | Laura (d. 2000) |
| Awards | Order of Work Medal of Work |
Biography
editOvidiu Creangă was born on February 14, 1921, in Vărzăreşti, present-day Moldova. He attended high school in Bălți, where Eugen Coșeriu, Sergiu Grossu, Valeriu Gafencu, Vadim Pirogan, Valentin Mândâcanu were his classmates[3] After the Soviet occupation of 1940, he fled from Bessarabia and in 1944 from Cernăuți, where he was attending university.[4] He then graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest, where he later also taught.[5] In the 1970s, Creangă was an official of the Romanian Ministry of Economy. In 1982, when he was 61, Ovidiu Creangă emigrated to Canada. He died in December 2017 at the age of 96.[6]
Awards
edit- Order of Work (Romanian: Ordinul Muncii), Romania[when?][citation needed]
- Medal of Work (Romanian: Medalia Muncii), Romania[when?][citation needed]
- "Magna Cum Laude" from the Bucharest Polytechnic[dubious – discuss][when?][citation needed]
Works
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ Cum am scăpat de Siberia Archived May 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Scriitorul Ovidiu Creangă: "N-aş vrea să mor înainte de a vedea Basarabia alipită la Patria Mamă – România!"
- ^ Literatura şi Arta, Un apostol al Neamului Romвnesc Archived 2017-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Cum am scăpat de Siberia
- ^ Scriitorul Ovidiu Creangă: "N-aş vrea să mor înainte de a vedea Basarabia alipită la Patria Mamă – România!"
- ^ Iacob Cazacu-Istrati: În memoria lui Ovidiu…
