Dumitru D. Roșca Explained

Dumitru D. Roșca
Birth Date:29 January 1895
Birth Place: Szelistye, Austria-Hungary
Death Place: Cluj-Napoca, Socialist Republic of Romania
Nationality:Romanian
Honorific Prefix:Doctor
Alma Mater:University of Paris
Workplaces:Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Fields:Philosopher, Professor

Dumitru D. Roṣca (January 29, 1895 – August 25, 1980) was a Romanian philosopher, professor and member of the Romanian Academy.

Biography

Dumitru Roşca attended philosophy classes in Paris at Sorbonne. He is best known for his doctoral thesis defended at Sorbonne in 1928: "The Influence of Taine on Hegel". The book was dedicated to Emile Bréhier.

Dumitru Roşca translated Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's works into Romanian. He also translated Hegel's "Life of Jesus" into French.

He published in French "Existénce tragique: An Attempt of Philosophical Synthesis". He contributed through his writings to the theory of existentialism.

His works were influenced by Hegel and Søren Kierkegaard.

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