# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bonifaciu-florescu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T05:49:13.655Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bonifaciu-florescu"
name: "Bonifaciu Florescu"
slug: "bonifaciu-florescu"
description: "Bonifaciu Florescu was a Romanian polygraph, the illegitimate son of writer-revolutionary Nicolae Bălcescu. Born secretly outside his parents' native Wallachia, at Pest, he was taken by his aristocratic mother in France, growing up as an erudite Francophone and Francophile. Florescu graduated from the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and the University of Rennes, returning home at age 25 to become a successful lecturer, polemicist, and historian of culture. Influenced by his father's politics, he was for a while a prominent figure on the far-left of Romanian liberalism and nationalism, which pitted him against the conservative society Junimea, and against his own conservative cousin, Prime Minister Ioan Emanoil Florescu. The conflict led to his losing a professorship at Iași University and being sidelined when applying for chairs at the University of Bucharest. His critique of Junimist literature, structured around a classical defense of prosody, inspired a libel by Mihai Eminescu—famously depicting Florescu as a \"homunculus\"."
tagline: "Romanian literary critic (1848-1899)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bonifaciu_Florescu.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1848-05-14"
deathDate: "1899-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.07
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.471022666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Bonifaciu Florescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "بونيفاسيو فلوريسكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%81%D9%84%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%88"
    title: "بونيفاسيو فلوريسكو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonifaciu_Florescu"
    title: "Bonifaciu Florescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonifaciu_Florescu"
    title: "Bonifaciu Florescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonifaciu_Florescu"
    title: "Bonifaciu Florescu"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12722862"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump