I. E. Torouțiu

Born into a poor peasant family in Solca, then part of Austrian-ruled Bukovina, he did well in primary school, and a teacher advised him to leave for Suceava and learn a trade.

A gifted student, he drew notice from rector Matthias Friedwagner, who arranged a scholarship at the Academy for Social and Commercial Studies in Frankfurt.

Magazines that published his work include Convorbiri Literare, Sămănătorul, Ramuri, Făt-Frumos, Floarea-soarelui, Litere and Pagini de istorie și critică literară.

His magnum opus is the thirteen-volume Studii și documente literare, which appeared between 1931 and 1946, spanning some 8,000 pages and leading Perpessicius to call him "a Hurmuzachi of literary history".

[4] He translated works by Ludwig Anzengruber, John Bunyan, Otto Funcke, Franz Grillparzer, Christian Friedrich Hebbel, Plato and J. C.