Alice Voinescu
Alice Voinescu | |
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Voinescu in 1948 | |
| Born | Alice Steriadi 10 February 1885 |
| Died | 4 June 1961 (aged 76) |
| Other names | Alice Steriadi Voinescu |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, essayist, university professor, theatre critic, translator |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Bucharest University of Paris |
| Thesis | L'Interprétation de la doctrine de Kant par l'École de Marburg: Étude sur l'idéalisme critique (1913) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lucien Lévy-Bruhl |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art |
Alice Voinescu (10 February 1885 – 4 June 1961) was a Romanian writer, essayist, university professor, theatre critic, and translator.
She was the first Romanian woman to become a Doctor of Philosophy, which she did at the Sorbonne in 1913 in Paris. In 1922, she became a professor of theatrical history at what would become the Royal Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts in Bucharest, where she taught for over two decades. In 1948, she was removed from her department and spent a year and seven months in prisons in Jilava and Ghencea. After her detention, she was kept under house arrest in the village of Costești near Târgu Frumos until 1954. Posthumously, her diary covering the interwar and communist period of Romania's history was discovered and published in 1997.