Iosif Blaga (July 1, 1864–June 2, 1937) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian literary theorist, aesthetician, priest, politician and educator.
Born in Lancrăm, near Sebeș in Transylvania, he studied at the local high school and in Alba Iulia, where he obtained a baccalaureate in 1884.
He then studied at the Romanian Orthodox theological seminary in Sibiu (1884–1887) and at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Budapest (1887–1891), earning a doctorate in philosophy with a thesis on the problem of attention from a psychological and pedagogical viewpoint.
[1] While traveling in Norway, Sweden and France from 1916 to 1919, he advocated on behalf of his native province, as well as for Romania, then under occupation by the Central Powers.
He published several didactic, oratorical and psychological works, as well as literary theory: Teoria dramei (1899) and Din estetica tragicului (vol.