Author · Romania
Gheorghe Asachi
Died in 1869
Gheorghe Asachi was born on 1 March 1788 in Herța, in Moldavia, the son of the priest Lazăr Asachi. He studied in Lemberg, then mathematics and astronomy in Vienna, and stayed in Rome from 1808 to 1812. Returning to Iași, he organised there in 1816 the first theatrical performance in Romanian, founded in 1829 the Albina românească, the first periodical of Moldavia, then a girls' school and, in 1835, the Academia Mihăileană. In 1836 he co-founded a conservatoire of music and drama. An opponent of the revolution of 1848, he died in Iași on 12 November 1869.
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- Short storiesNouvelles historiques de la Moldo-RoumanieGheorghe Asachi · 1859not translated into EnglishLiterature