Iorgu Iordan

Iorgu Iordan (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈjorɡu jorˈdan]; also known as Jorgu Jordan or Iorgu Jordan; September 29 [O.S. October 11] 1888–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 Dicţionarul limbii române - "Dictionary of the Romanian Language", Micul Dicţionar Academic - "Concise Dictionary of the Academy" and Îndreptar ortografic, ortoepic şi de punctuaţie - "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 Iaşi in 1908. He completed studies of Letters, Philosophy and Law at the University of Iaşi 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 Iaşi and Galaţi, before becoming an assistant professor at Iaşi University in 1926 — a titular professor in 1927.

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