Ana Cartianu

Ana Cartianu was a Romanian academic, essayist and translator.

Biography

She was born in the village of in Horezu commune, Vâlcea County. She studied at Bedford College, London, and received her degree from the Literature Department, School of English Studies of Cernăuți University in 1934.
In 1936, she co-founded the School of English Language and Literature at the University of Bucharest, where she would later be Dean of the School of Germanic Languages.
Ana Cartianu is known as the "great dame of English studies in Romania".
In 1930, she married Gheorghe Cartianu-Popescu, a university professor. Her maiden name was Tomescu. She died in Bucharest in 2001.