Iorgu Iordan
Iorgu Iordan (; also known as ''Jorgu Jordan'' or ''Iorgu Jordan''; –September 20, 1986) was a
Romanian
linguist,
philologist, diplomat, journalist, and
left-wing agrarian, later
communist, politician. The author of works on a large variety of topics, most of them dealing with issues of the
Romanian language and
Romance languages in general, he was elected a full
member of the Romanian Academy in 1945. He was head of its
Institute of Linguistics (currently named after him and
Alexandru Rosetti) between 1949 and his retirement in 1962.
He was the author of several Romanian language instruments, published under the aegis of the Romanian Academy (including ''Dicționarul limbii române'' - "Dictionary of the Romanian Language", ''Micul Dicționar Academic'' - "Concise Dictionary of the Academy" and ''Îndreptar ortografic, ortoepic și de punctuație'' - "Guide to
Orthography,
Orthoepy and
Punctuation").
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