# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-calinescu
# Generated: 2026-08-14T15:51:09.754Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/george-calinescu"
name: "George Călinescu"
slug: "george-calinescu"
description: "George Călinescu was a Romanian literary critic, historian, novelist, academician, statesman and journalist, and a writer of classicist and humanist tendencies. He is currently considered one of the most important Romanian literary critics of all time, alongside Titu Maiorescu and Eugen Lovinescu, and is one of the outstanding figures of Romanian literature in the 20th century."
tagline: "Romanian writer, academic and literary critic"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1899-06-19"
deathDate: "1965-03-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump