Ioan Alexandru was a Romania

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Poet

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, essayist and politician. After the Romanian revolution in 1989, Ioan Alexandru became a founding member and vice president of the PNŢCD ( Christian-Democratic National Peasants' Party in Romania ). He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies during the 1992 suffrage and again in 1996 was elected to the Romanian Senate as a Senator of the Country "Arad" /Romania.

Biography

Ioan Alexandru graduated from University of Bucharest's Faculty of Philology in 1968. His debut poem was published in Tribuna in (1960) but his first poem was published independently in 1964 entitled Cum să vă spun. He received a fellowship from the Humboldt Foundation in Germany, recommended by German philosopher Martin Heidegger

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 and studied Philosophy, Theology, Classical Philology ( The old Hebrew Language and the old Greek Language ) and Art History in Freiburg, Basel, Aachen and München. Back in Romania Ioan Alexandru earned a doctorate in philology at the University of Bucharest in 1973. His thesis was entitled: "Patria la Pindar şi Eminescu".

On the night of December 21, 1989, the poet Ioan Alexandru upheld the cross and the icon of Jesus Christ among: soldiers, injured people and participants of the manifestation against Ceausescu's regime in Bucharest

Bucharest

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, from the square "Piata Romana" to the square of the "University"

His unique act in that Night of December 1989, in the whole communist block, his courage, his resistance under the communist regime and his Christian testimony, all these things proved his courage during the atheist-communist regime. In recognition of his courage, the poet Ioan Alexandru has received from the U.S. Congress the American flag "Old Glory", which was on the Congress' building on August 31, 1993, in honour of Romania. Ioan Alexandru is the co-founder of the Prayer Group in the Romanian Parliament and the founder of the Christian association "Pro-Vita" in Romania.

Poetry

• Cum să vă spun, 1964
• Viaţa, deocamdată, 1965
• Infernul discutabil, 1967
• Vămile pustiei, 1969
• Vina (versuri) (1967);
• Poeme (1970);
• Imnele bucuriei (1973);
• Imnele Transilvaniei, 1976, Imnele Transilvaniei II (1985);
• Iubirea de patrie. Jurnal de poet (eseuri), I (1978),
• Iubirea de patrie. Jurnal de poet (eseuri), II (1985),
• Imnele Moldovei, 1980
• Poezii-Poesie (1981);
• Imnele Ţării Româneşti, 1981
• Imnele iubirii, 1983
• Imnele Putnei, 1985
• Imnele Maramureşului, 1988
• Bat clopotele în Ardeal (roman) (1991);
• Căderea zidurilor Ierihonului sau Adevărul despre Revoluţie (publicistică) (1993);
• Amintirea poetului (2003);
• Lumină lină: Imne (2004);

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