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Liviu Rebreanu

Died in 1944

Liviu Rebreanu was born on 27 November 1885 in Târlișua, in what was then Austro-Hungarian Transylvania, one of the thirteen children of the schoolteacher Vasile Rebreanu. Educated at the military school in Sopron and then at the Ludovica Academy in Budapest, he served as an officer in Gyula and left the army in 1908. Having moved to Romania, he was arrested in 1910 at the request of Austria-Hungary, extradited and imprisoned in Gyula. Back in Bucharest, he presided over the Society of Romanian Writers, directed the National Theatre from 1928 to 1930, entered the Academy in 1939 and died in Valea Mare on 1 September 1944.

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