Dumitru D. Roșca

Doctor Dumitru D. Roșca
File:D.D.Rosca (bust).jpg Roșca's bust in the Babeș-Bolyai University
Born	(1895-01-29)January 29, 1895 Szelistye, Austria-Hungary
Died	Cluj-Napoca, Socialist Republic of Romania
Nationality	Romanian
Fields	Philosopher, Professor
Institutions	Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Alma mater	University of Paris
Influences	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard

Dumitru D. Roṣca (29 January 1895 – 25 August 1980) was a Romanian philosopher, professor and member of the Romanian Academy.

Biography

Dumitru Roşca attended philosophy classes in Paris at Sorbonne. He is best known for his doctoral thesis defended at Sorbonne in 1928: Hegel's influence on Taine. The book was dedicated to Emile Bréhier.

Dumitru Roşca translated Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's works into Romanian. He also translated Hegel's Life of Jesus into French. He published in French "Existénce tragique: An Attempt of Philosophical Synthesis". He contributed through his writings to the theory of existentialism.

His works were influenced by Hegel and Søren Kierkegaard.

Works

• Linii și figuri (1943)
• Puncte de sprijin (1943)
• Istoria filosofiei (1964)
• Prelegeri de estetică (1966)
• Știința logicii (1966)
• Studii filosofice (1967)
• Însemnări despre Hegel (1967)
• Influența lui Hegel asupra lui Taine (1968)
• Existența tragică: încercare de sinteză filosofică (1968)
• Prelegeri de filosofie a istoriei (1969)
• Studii și eseuri filosofice (1970)
• Oameni și climate (1971)

References

• Muscă, Vasile (1996). Filosofia ideii naționale la Lucian Blaga și D.D. Roșca. Cluj: Biblioteca Apostrof.