LUCIAN BLAGA, POET AND PHILOSOPHER
LUCIAN BLAGA, POET AND PHILOSOPHER

Summary/Abstract: In Romanian culture, Lucian Blaga stands out as the greatest creative personality of the 20 th century. His work as a poet, philosopher, essayist, playwright and translator of poetry – is a synthesis of great originality. He represents a profound ethical inspiration nourished by an amazing openness towards the various aspects of the human mind: philosophy and science, history and religion and, all of these, the complex and controversial field of art. Lucian Blaga was born in the village of Lancrăm (Alba County) in the centre of Transylvania. He was educated at Sibiu and Braşov and studied theology in Vienna. After a period of almost seven years as diplomat in Berne and Lisbon, he was appointed professor at the University of Cluj, where a special chair of Philosophy of Culture was founded for him in acknowledgment of his activity as an intellectual. His philosophical thinking was set forth in four trilogies: The Trilogy of Knowledge, The Trilogy of Culture, The Trilogy of Values and The Cosmological Trilogy. The vision of the philosopher was shared by the poet, whose lyrical works evince the influence of German expressionism. Blaga’s expressionism has a distinct Romanian flavour that is revealed by the investigation of traditional latencies. His lyrical works, collected in volumes such as Poems of Light, The Prophet’s Steps, In the Great Transition, Praise of Sleep, display a concern with the morphology of the miracle.

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