Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was a Romanian writer and philologist, who mastered in many branches of Romanian philology and history. Hasdeu is considered to have been able to understand 26 languages many of which he could also chat in. He was born in Cristineştii Hotinului, northern Basarabia. His father was the writer Alexandru Hasdeu, a descendent of the Hâjdău family of Moldavian boyars. After studying law at the University of Kharkiv, he fought in the Crimean War. In 1858 he settled in Iaşi as a high school teacher and librarian. In 1865, Hasdeu published a monograph on Ioan Vodă the Terrible, renaming him for the first time „cel Viteaz”. The portrayal of this violent, short rule as a glorious moment and of Ioan himself as a reformer drew criticism from the Junimea society, a conflict which has followed Hasdeu for the rest of his life. His Etymologicum magnum Romaniae written1886 was the beginning of an encyclopaedic dictionary of the Romanian language, though he never covered letters after B, at the word „barbat”. After the death of his only child, the beloved Julia, in 1888, he became a spiritualist and a firm adept of the spiritism. He retreated to Câmpina, where he built a castle, and arranged it as a temple to his newly found beliefs and to his daughter. One day, he was writing something, a letter, and suddenly he started to write with his daughter’s calligraphy. In the end, he signed the letter as Julia Hasdeu. He realised in that moment that his daughter was trying to communicate with him, and that’s why he got involved in spiritism. There are certain legends about the Câmpina castle in which both his dead daughter and Hasdeu are involved. Many people used to hear at night Julia playing the piano, or used to see her silhouette at the balcony. Hasdeu died there and was buried in Bellu cemetery, Bucharest. His works include two dramas, Răsvan şi Vidra romanticizing the actions of an obscure 1590’s Moldavian Voivode, Ştefan Răzvan,

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Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu

Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was a Romanian writer and philologist, who mastered in many branches of Romanian philology and history. Hasdeu is considered to have been able to understand 26 languages many of which he could also chat in.

He was born in Cristineştii Hotinului, northern Basarabia. His father was the writer Alexandru Hasdeu, a descendent of the Hâjdău family of Moldavian boyars. After studying law at the University of Kharkiv, he fought in the Crimean War. In 1858 he settled in Iaşi as a high school teacher and librarian. In 1865, Hasdeu published a monograph on Ioan Vodă the Terrible, renaming him for the first time „cel Viteaz”. The portrayal of this violent, short rule as a glorious moment and of Ioan himself as a reformer drew criticism from the Junimea society, a conflict which has followed Hasdeu for the rest of his life.

His Etymologicum magnum Romaniae written1886 was the beginning of an encyclopaedic dictionary of the Romanian language, though he never covered letters after B, at the word „barbat”.

After the death of his only child, the beloved Julia, in 1888, he became a spiritualist and a firm adept of the spiritism. He retreated to Câmpina, where he built a castle, and arranged it as a temple to his newly found beliefs and to his daughter. One day, he was writing something, a letter, and suddenly he started to write with his daughter’s calligraphy. In the end, he signed the letter as Julia Hasdeu. He realised in that moment that his daughter was trying to communicate with him, and that’s why he got involved in spiritism. There are certain legends about the Câmpina castle in which both his dead daughter and Hasdeu are involved. Many people used to hear at night Julia playing the piano, or used to see her silhouette at the balcony. Hasdeu died there and was buried in Bellu cemetery, Bucharest.

His works include two dramas, Răsvan şi Vidra romanticizing the actions of an obscure 1590’s Moldavian Voivode, Ştefan Răzvan, and Domniţa Ruxandra. In 1891, he wrote „Sic Cogito”, a theoretical work of spiritism as a philosophy, in which he speaks about his experience with Julia’s ghost and how he built the castle at her advice.The critic and writer Mircea Eliade described him as a "genius of an amazing vastness".