Ion Chinezu

He contributed to a few projects undertaken by the Museum of the Romanian Language in the latter city: Dicționarul limbii române, Atlasul lingvistic al României and the bibliographies of Dacoromania.

In 1930, he obtained a doctorate from the University of Cluj with a thesis that dealt with aspects of Hungarian literature in Transylvania from 1919 to 1929.

He was honorary teaching assistant in the department of Romanian cultural history at Cluj, created in 1931 for Octavian Goga.

Toward the end of 1944, the Nazi German troops who had occupied Hungary during Operation Margarethe deported Chinezu to Germany.

A skilled critic of Romanian and foreign literature, he sought to raise the literary prominence of Pavel Dan and of the younger interwar Transylvanian writers.