LUCIAN BLAGA (1895-1961)

"Man's destiny is his creation" said the writer. All his life was creation: poetry, theater, philosophy.

He was the first poet given to us by Transylvania after the 1918 Union. Born at May 9 in Lancram-Alba, priest son. Curious for the young readers (specially for the children) is the following: the future poet did not speak till the age of 4, beeing "silent like a swan", as he said.

He recovers and proves, latter, that is very intelligent. After studies in the country (Sebes, Brasov, Sibiu), he goes to the Wien University and takes his doctorate in philosophy (1920). Next begins a diplomatic career (Warsaw, Praga, Bern, Wien, Lisbon) for 12 years. He is elected in 1936 member of the Academy and he is a teacher of culture philosophy at the University of Cluj. In the comunist period, he suffers a lot, beeing moved from the University at the Academy branch from Cluj and at the universitary library. He is buriend in the Lancram church garden, near Sebes.

Poetry volumes: Poemele luminii (1919, debut), Pasii profetului (1921), În marea trecere (1924), Lauda somnului (1929), La cumana apelor (1933), La curtile dorului (1938), Nebanuitele trepte (1943), Poezii (1962).

Plays: Zamolxe, mister pagân (1921), Mesterul Manole (1927), Avram Iancu (1934), Arca lui Noe (1944) and posthumously Anton Pann (1964).

He published aphorismes (Pietre pentru templul meu, Discobol) and memoirs (Hronicul si cântecul vârstelor).

His philosiphycal creation is dominated by the 4 trilogies: Trilogy of knowledge - 1943, Trilogy of culture - 1944, Trilogy of values - 1946 si Cosmological trilogy (unfinished).

Some time ago, Lucian Blaga, a Romanian poet and philosopher said that "eternity was born in the countryside." In the very neighbourhood of the abbeys, at the time when work in the fields was finished, Romanians have rolled the wheel for millennia. They gave a meaning to life and to their mission on earth, as another poet, a modern one, this time, said: "...wheel, oh, wheel, we discover you once again..."

Last update: 2002, November 7
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