Radio Romania International
Indian and Oriental studies have had a number of remarkable representatives in Romania as well. The first was Mircea Eliade, born in 1907, a reputed writer and historian of religions, who had a vast scientific and didactic career in the West. The following generation of experts in Indian studies included Sergiu Al-George, Anton Zigmund-Cerbu, Eliza Zigmund-Cerbu, Marcel Leibovici and Arion Roșu, the four latter being members of the Bucharest-based Jewish community. Arion Roșu was born February 1, 1924 in Bucharest, and passed away on April 4, 2007 in Versailles, France, at the age of 83. He ...
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