Ovidiu Creangă

Ovidiu Creangă (February 14, 1921 – December 4, 2017) was a Romanian activist and author.[1] He served as an official of the Ministry of Economy (Romania) and taught at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.[2] He lived in Canada from 1982 until his death in late 2017.

Ovidiu Creangă
Born(1921-02-14)February 14, 1921
Vărzăreşti, Kingdom of Romania[a]
DiedDecember 4, 2017(2017-12-04) (aged 96)
Toronto, Ontario
NationalityRomanian
Alma materPolitehnica University of Bucharest
SpouseLaura (d. 2000)
AwardsOrder of Work
Medal of Work

Biography

Ovidiu Creangă was born on February 14, 1921, in Vărzăreşti, present-day Moldova. He attended high school in Bălţi, where Eugen Coşeriu, Sergiu Grossu, Valeriu Gafencu, Vadim Pirogan, Valentin Mândâcanu were his classmates[3] After Soviet occupation of 1940, he fled from Bessarabia and in 1944 from Cernăuţi, where he attended university.[4] Then he graduated from the Politehnica University of Bucharest. Also, he taught at the Politehnica University of Bucharest.[5] In the 1970s, Ovidiu Creangă was an official of the Ministry of Economy (Romania). In 1982, when he was 61, Ovidiu Creangă emigrated to Canada. He died in December 2017 at the age of 96.[6]

Awards

Works
  • Ovidiu Creangă, "Cu şi fără securişti", Preface Paul Goma, (Vicovia, Bacău, 2009)

Notes
  1. ^
    Present-day Moldova.

References
  1. Cum am scăpat de Siberia Archived May 28, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  2. Scriitorul Ovidiu Creangă: "N-aş vrea să mor înainte de a vedea Basarabia alipită la Patria Mamă – România!"
  3. Literatura şi Arta, Un apostol al Neamului Romвnesc Archived 2017-11-12 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Cum am scăpat de Siberia
  5. Scriitorul Ovidiu Creangă: "N-aş vrea să mor înainte de a vedea Basarabia alipită la Patria Mamă – România!"
  6. Iacob Cazacu-ISTRATI: În memoria lui Ovidiu…
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