Ovidiu Creangă Explained

Ovidiu Creangă
Birth Date:14 February 1921
Birth Place:Vărzărești, Kingdom of Romania
Death Place:Toronto, Ontario
Nationality:Romanian
Spouse:Laura (d. 2000)
Awards:Order of Work
Medal of Work

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.

Biography

Ovidiu Creangă was born on February 14, 1921, in Vărzăreşti, present-day Moldova. He attended high school in Bălți, where Eugen Coșeriu, 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 Cernăuți, 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]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.contrafort.md/2007/154/1282.html Cum am scăpat de Siberia
  2. http://unimedia.md/?mod=news&id=22151 Scriitorul Ovidiu Creangă: "N-aş vrea să mor înainte de a vedea Basarabia alipită la Patria Mamă – România!"
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  4. http://www.contrafort.md/2007/154/1282.html Cum am scăpat de Siberia
  5. http://unimedia.md/?mod=news&id=22151 Scriitorul Ovidiu Creangă: "N-aş vrea să mor înainte de a vedea Basarabia alipită la Patria Mamă – România!"
  6. http://www.logossiagape.ro/2017/12/12/iacob-cazacu-istrati-in-memoria-lui-ovidiu/ Iacob Cazacu-ISTRATI: În memoria lui Ovidiu…