Leon Levițchi

Leon Levițchi (27 August 1918 – 16 October 1991) was a Romanian philologist and translator who specialised in the study of the English language and literature.

His major was English language and literature, while his minor was aesthetics and literary criticism.

[1] After the war, he started teaching English, first at high school level, and then at the University of Bucharest, where he ultimately became a professor.

Together with fellow researcher Andrei Bantaș, Levițchi edited in 1991 what is so far the most comprehensive English-Romanian dictionary on paper, with over 70,000 entries.

The two had also previously published a bilingual Romanian-English edition of Mihai Eminescu's poems, translated into English by themselves.