Career
He was professor at the University of Chernivtsi. He also actively contributed to other Romanian newspapers such as Flacăra, Vieaţa Nouă, Cuget Românesc, Cuvântul, Gândirea, Lumea Nouă, Cuvântul Studențesc, Vremea and Porunca Vremii. Protopopescu was the director of the National Theater in Chernivtsi (1926-1927), and also a press attaché at the Romanian Legation in London (1928-1930).
In 1948 he was arrested again by the communist authorities.
He tried to commit suicide by cutting his veins. He was sent to a hospital and then arrested again.
He made a new and successful attempt at suicide: leaning over an elevator shaft, he was decapitated by the cabin. A holder of a Doctor of Philosophy in English studies (with a thesis about William Congreve) from the Paris University, he was for a while dean of the School of English Language and Literature, Department of Letters, University of Bucharest.
