Titu Maiorescu

Titu Liviu Maiorescu (Romanian: [ˈtitu majoˈresku]; 15 February 1840 – 18 June 1917) was a Romanian literary critic and politician, founder of the Junimea Society. As a literary critic, he was instrumental in the development of Romanian culture in the second half of the 19th century.  A member of the Conservative Party, he was Foreign Minister between 1910 and 1914 and Prime Minister of Romania from 1913 to 1914. He represented Romania at the Peace Conference in Bucharest that ended the Second Balkan War. In politics as in culture he favoured Germany over France. He opposed Romania's entry in World War I against Germany, but he nevertheless refused to collaborate with the German army after it had occupied Bucharest. He is best known as the first who proposed a canon of Romanian literature and especially as the one who discovered and promoted Mihai Eminescu, Ion Creangă and Ion Luca Caragiale.
Category:Romanian literature
Category:Critics
Category:Junimea
Category:19th century
Category:20th century