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Iorgu Iordan
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Iorgu Iordan (ˈjorɡu jorˈdan; also known as Jorgu Jordan or Iorgu Jordan; –September 20, 1986) was a Romanian linguist, philologist, diplomat, journalist, and left-wing agrarian, later communist, politician. The author of works on a large variety of topics, most of them dealing with issues of the Romanian language and Romance languages in general, he was elected a full member of the Romanian Academy in 1945. He was head of its Institute of Linguistics (currently named after him and Alexandru Rosetti) between 1949 and his retirement in 1962.
He was the author of several Romanian language instruments, published under the aegis of the Romanian Academy (including Dicționarul limbii române - "Dictionary of the Romanian Language", Micul Dicționar Academic - "Concise Dictionary of the Academy" and Îndreptar ortografic, ortoepic și de punctuație - "Guide to Orthography, Orthoepy and Punctuation").
Born in Tecuci to a Bulgarian father and a Romanian mother, Iordan graduated from the Costache Negruzzi Boarding High School in Iași in 1908. He completed studies of Letters, Philosophy and Law at the University of Iași in 1911 (where he attended the course on Constitutional law held by Constantin Stere) and had a few months' practice at the University of Berlin later in the same year. After World War I, he took up advanced studies in Letters at the universities of Bonn, Paris, Florence, and Rome, while completing his doctorate (1919); Iordan also worked as a lyceum teacher in Iași and Galați, before becoming an assistant professor at Iași University in 1926 — a titular professor in 1927.
A Poporanist who had joined the circle formed around Viața Românească, Iordan engaged in politics during 1918, and was active, alongside Paul Bujor, Constantin Ion Parhon, Octav Băncilă, Ioan Borcea, and Nicolae Costăchescu, in the short-lived Laborer Party (Partidul Muncitor). Iordan followed it into the merger with the Peasants' Party (PȚ), and, after 1926, sat on the Left of the National Peasants' Party (PNȚ, created as the union between the PȚ and the Romanian National Party).
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