Iulia Haşdeu was a Romanian poet, the daughter of writer and philologist Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu.
Education
From a very young age, Iulia wrote poems and prose in both Romanian and French, taught herself foreign languages and studied piano and canto. At the age of 8 she graduated from primary school, and was fluent in French, English and German. At age 11, she graduated from Saint Sava Gymnasium and the Conservatory of Music from Bucharest, in the field of piano and canto.
Career
She was the first Romanian woman to study at Louisiana Sorbonne University in Paris. At the age of 6 years, she wrote a study about the life and work of Michael the Brave. In 1881, accompanied by her mother, Iulia went to Paris, where she entered Sévigné College and passed the Baccalaureate examination
In 1886, Iulia enrolled at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at Sorbonne University and attended courses at the École des Hautes Études (Schools of Higher Studies) in Paris.
Iulia gave two lectures at the university on the logic of hypothesis and on the second book of Herodotus. She started writing a doctoral thesis with the theme centered on Romanian folk philosophy: logic, psychology, metaphysics, ethics and theodicy.
While preparing her doctoral thesis, a fragile Iulia contracted tuberculosis in Paris. Despite undergoing treatments in France, Italy and Switzerland, Iulia returned to Bucharest defeated.
She died on September 29, 1888 and was buried at Bellu Cemetery, where Bogdan Haşdeu built her a temple in the family vault.