George Giuglea

George Giuglea (January 29, 1884 – April 7, 1967) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian linguist and philologist.

He was born in Satulung, a village that today is incorporated into Săcele city, close to Brașov in southeast Transylvania. The family were shepherds, and Giuglea's childhood was divided between his native village and Roseți, Călărași County, in the Romanian Old Kingdom. Like other local shepherds, his parents would leave their mountainous home and cross the border, taking their sheep to spend the winter on the plains, in a warmer climate, close to the Danube. Giuglea attended Andrei Șaguna High School in Brașov, followed by the literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Bucharest in the Romanian capital. His professors included Titu Maiorescu, Nicolae Iorga, Ioan Bianu, Dimitrie Onciul and Simion Mehedinți. Ovid Densusianu was particularly influential for the student, who would compose an evocative obituary for him in 1938.

After taking his degree in Romanian and Romance philology, he worked as a clerk at the Romanian Academy and then as a high-school teacher. While teaching at Târgoviște, Densusianu, who admired his qualities, suggested that Giuglea go to Paris for specialized study. Without a scholarship and lacking his own means, he was about to abandon the idea. However, he was in Paris at the end of 1912, and between 1913 and 1914 lectured on Romanian language and literature at the Sorbonne, in the department created in 1912 for Mario Roques. He left France upon the outbreak of World War I; once back home, he volunteered for service in a vânători de munte regiment, seeing action upon Romania's entry into the war in 1916. In 1919, following the end of the war and the union of Transylvania with Romania, Sextil Pușcariu invited him to the new University of Cluj, where he chaired the Romance department until retiring. In 1920, he defended his thesis at Cluj with Pușcariu and not, as he had intended, at Bucharest with Densusianu.

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