Ilarie Chendi

Ilarie Chendi (November 14, 1871 – June 23, 1913) was a Romanian literary critic.

Born in Darlac, Kis-Küküllő County, now Dârlos, Sibiu County, in Transylvania,[1] his father Vasile was a Romanian Orthodox priest, while his mother Eliza (née Hodoș) was related to Alexandru Papiu Ilarian and Nerva Hodoș.

[3] In 1894, he graduated from the theological seminary in Sibiu and enrolled in the Literature faculty of the University of Budapest, which he left in 1898.

[2] He made his prose-writing debut in 1893, and in 1898 settled in Bucharest, capital of the Romanian Old Kingdom.

Although still influenced by his former colleagues' ideas—Zigu Ornea labeled the publication "a dissident sămănătorist magazine"—he pursued a somewhat independent course, engaging in bitterly ironic polemics with Iorga.