Edgar Papu or Edgard I. Pappu (

Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the Dâmbovița River, less than north of ...

, 13/26 September 1908 – 30 March 1993) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

n scholar of literature and a professor. He is notable for the coining of the term

protochronism Dacianism is a Romanian term describing the tendency to ascribe, largely relying on questionable data and subjective interpretation, an idealized past to the country as a whole. While particularly prevalent during the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu ...

(Romanian ''protochronismul'') in 1974, and for assisting development of this nationalist-literary-historical concept during the Ceaucescu regime.Steven G. Ellis, Lud'a Klusáková - ''Imagining frontiers, contesting identities'' 2007, (1995) Page 410 "The term 'protochronism' first appeared in an article of literary critic Edgar Papu in 1974. His article, “Romanian Protochronism”, argued that contrary to views widespread in Romania, the literary tradition was not largely inspired by western forms but was highly original. Romanian literary creations had often anticipated creative developments in the west (such as surrealism, dadaism), even though these anticipations had often not been acknowledged as such. "

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Romanian classical scholars 1908 births 1993 deaths Writers from Bucharest Members of the Romanian Academy elected posthumously {{Romania-bio-stub