Studies at the “Cetral Seminary” and at the Theology Faculty of Bucharest (1912 – 1916), with specialisation at the Catholic Faculty of Theology and at that of Philosophy of the University of Vienna (1920 – 1922). He worked with the editorial offices of some newspapers of Bucharest (from 1918); he ran the monthly magazine “Gândirea” (1926 – 1944), having been the main co-ordinator and theoretician of the traditional thought trend. He worked, in parallel, as professor of modern religious literature at the Faculty of Theology of Chișinău (1927 – 1932), transferred to the Faculty of Theology of Bucharest (since 1932); in 1941 he becomes professor of Ascetics and Mystics at the same Faculty, operating till 1944; substitute professor for the chair of Apologetics and Dogmatics (1938 – 1944). Having been engaged in the political life too, he was a member of the Romanian Parliament for a time, then minister for National Propaganda (1940 and 1941). He participated in several international congresses of the writers, doctor honoris causa of the University of Vienna (1940), titular member of the Romanian Academy (1940), dignity lost during the communist regime. From the autumn of 1944 he hid in various localities of Transylvania; in May 1947 he surrendered to the authorities, and imprisoned at Văcărești (in Bucharest) and at Aiud, till April 1962, when he was released. He passed away on 20/21 August 1972 at Mogoșoaia, near Bucharest.
22 December 1889 – NICHIFOR CRAINIC, theology professor, poet, essayist, philosopher, journalist, politician, was born in Bulbucata, today’s in Giurgiu county.
