Background
He was born in Densuș, Hunedoara County, in the Transylvania region.
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From 1846 to 1848, he attended the normal school in Hațeg, followed by the Blaj gymnasium (1852-1860) and the Sibiu legal academy (1860-1864).
Career
He was the brother of historian Nicolae Densușianu. He made his poetry debut in 1860 in Foaie pentru minte, inimă și literatură and submitted poems, critical studies and political articles to the main Transylvanian periodicals of the time: Amicul școalei, Concordia, Federațiunea, Albina, Transilvania and Familia. A politically motivated trial was held against him in 1873, and he spent a month in prison.
Residing at Făgăraș, he practiced law from 1864 to 1880.
In 1881, he moved to the Romanian Old Kingdom, settling in the Moldavian capital of Iași. There, he was a professor of Latin language and literature at the University of Iași, as well as a substitute professor of Romanian literary history.
As a fiction writer, he was mediocre but prolific and ambitious. His work includes a two-volume saga, Negriada (1879, 1884).
His main calling was as a critic and literary historian (Aventuri literare, 1881.
Cercetări literare, 1887). The couple had a number of children, including Ovid. Eliza, who would marry Vespasian Erbiceanu.
And Elena, a future physician and university professor married to Emil Pușcariu.
Achievements
Politics
In 1874-1875, he edited the Brașov political newspaper Orientul latin, with his brother and Ioan Alexandru Lapedatu as collaborators. His views were grounded in a rigorous, classically oriented theoretical base. He was studious, conscientious and erudite, a competent interpreter of old literature as well as that dating to the 1848 revolution era.
Membership
He belonged to Astra, and in 1877 was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.
