His father studied at Bruckenthal Highschool in Sibiu and according to Lucian Blaga his way of being was inline with "German cultural tradition": opened to technological progress and free thinking, sometimes in contrast with his profession which he did "without the impetus of true conviction".

"His education started in Hungarian in the neighbouring Sebeș, where he remained until 1906, after which he attended the "Andrei Șaguna" high school in Brașov between 1906 and 1914.

At the outbreak of the World War I, he began theological studies in Sibiu to avoid being drafted in the Austro-Hungarian army (like many Romanians from Transylvania at the time).

"His 1919 Poems of Light, published by Sextil Pușcariu – an acquaintance of Cornelia's family - first in Glasul Bucovinei, then as a stand-alone volume, received very positive criticism, Blaga being acclaimed as a figure who "represented the Transylvania of today and tomorrow", his book placed along with the Bible on the nightstand for the Queen of Romania during her visit to Transylvania following the 1918 Union.

[7] This was to pave his way for a networking trip to Bucharest where he visited the Romanian Academy and met Nicolae Iorga and Alexandru Vlahuță, among others.

However, having finished his studies at Vienna and in look for an academic position, his application to Romanian University of Cluj was not successful, his Habilitation Thesis "The Philosophy of Style" being rejected in 1924.

[2] He wrote in the regional press, being the editor of the magazines Cultura in Cluj and Banatul' in Lugoj as well as for Patria, Voința, Adevărul literar și artistic, Universul cultural and others.

He was then assigned a position as a plenipotentiary minister to Portugal, and later as a senator of the Carol II's party National Renaissance Front.

In the same year he finally obtained a seat at King Ferdinand I University, becoming a professor of cultural philosophy, a cathedra created for him.

Following the abdication of Carol II he came in conflict with the ideologists supporting the government (for example Dumitru Stăniloae) and in 1943, he was forced to defend his position in the Academy.

Then, in 1948, although he was briefly a member of the newly formed National Popular Party, having been for a while under heavy criticism from men of the system such as Lucrețiu Pătrășcanu and Mihai Beniuc, and accused, among other things, of being an acolyte of the former king of Romania Carol II, and that he praised Corneliu Zelea Codreanu in his Avram Iancu play, he was removed from the Academy and public life by the Socialist Republic of Romania's authorities, losing his cathedra as well.

[12] He died on 6 May 1961 after being diagnosed with a spinal tumor, and was buried according to the custom three days later on what would have been his 66th birthday, in his native village cemetery of Lancrăm.

[21] This is an intentional direction set by the author who saw philosphy as closer to art than to science - in the sense of rejecting Positivism and embracing Constructivism as an avenue of understanding the world.