Octavian Goga
| Octavian Goga | |
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| Prime Minister of Romania | |
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In office 28 December 1937 – 10 February 1938 |
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| Monarch | Carol II |
| Preceded by | Gheorghe Tătărescu |
| Succeeded by | Miron Cristea |
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| Born | 1 April 1881 Rășinari, Austria-Hungary |
| Died |
7 May 1938 (aged 57) Ciucea, Romania |
| Nationality | Romanian |
| Political party |
Romanian National Party People's Party National Agrarian Party National Christian Party |
| Spouse(s) | 1906-1920: Hortensia (b. Cosma) (first wife); 1921-1938: Veturia (b. Mureșan) (second wife) |
| Profession | poet, journalist |
| Religion | Romanian Orthodox |
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Octavian Goga (Romanian pronunciation: [oktaviˈan ˈɡoɡa]; 1 April 1881 – 7 May 1938) was a Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.
Goga was born in Rășinari, near Sibiu.
Goga was an active member in the Romanian nationalistic movement in Transylvania and of its leading group, the Romanian National Party (PNR) in Austro-Hungary. Before World War I, Goga was arrested by the Hungarian authorities. At various intervals before the union of Romania and Transylvania in 1918, Goga took refuge in Romania, becoming active in literary and political circles. Because of his political activity in Romania, the Hungarian state sentenced him to death in absentia.
During World War I, he joined the Romanian Army and took part as a soldier in the Dobruja campaign.
In the interwar period he left the PNR to join General Alexandru Averescu's People's Party (PP), a populist movement created upon the war's end.
Goga clashed with Averescu over the latter's conflict with King Carol II. A founder of the minor PP splinter group naming itself the National Agrarian Party, he led it into an alliance with A. C. Cuza's National-Christian Defense League, forming the National Christian Party.
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