Gala Galaction

Grigore Pișculescu, who signed himself Gala Galaction, was born on 16 April 1879 in Didești, in Teleorman county; his mother was a priest's daughter. He studied literature and then theology and was ordained priest in 1922. He taught the New Testament at the faculty of theology of Chișinău, of which he was dean, then the Old Testament in Bucharest, and translated the Bible into Romanian with the priest Vasile Radu. A member of the Romanian Academy in 1947, he died in Bucharest on 8 March 1961.

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• NovelPapucii lui MahmudGala Galaction · 1932not translated into EnglishLiterature