Ion Scurtu

A native of Brașov, in the Transylvania region, he attended the local Romanian high school, where his father was a teacher.

He then entered Budapest University, but withdrew in order to work as an editor for the Sibiu-based Tribuna.

From there, he crossed into the Romanian Old Kingdom and edited Nicolae Fleva's Dreptatea.

Returning to Transylvania, he enrolled in Franz Joseph University at Cluj, but was expelled for his nationalist activism.

[1] He earned a doctorate there in 1903; his dissertation dealt with Mihai Eminescu's life and prose work.