to the Friends of Literary History in late November 1940. According to literary historian Victor Durnea, this contribution was forgettable, "obviously the work of a dilettante, often ridiculous in its claims." By late 1941, he was presenting his claim of having deduced "the origin of every word in any Indo-European language"; he also denied the Slavic influence on Romanian, postulating instead that Slavic languages were deeply influenced by Romanian. During 1942, Sterian was active as a member of Pavel Macedonski's Romanian Literary Salon. In early 1944, he returned to publishing with an astronomical tract, denying that the Sun is incandescent, and offering his musings on the possibility of extraterrestrial life. He died in 1948, just as Romania was entering a period of communist rule. The new regime marginalized, imprisoned, and ultimately rehabilitated his writer son, and also briefly arrested Constantin Sterian. The latter's daughter is the actress and model Raluca Sterian, who, during her father and uncle's persecution, protected her career by becoming the lover of communist minister Gogu Rădulescu; in 1964, she managed to emigrate to France, where she married a publisher, Jean-Jacques Nathan. Notes References Lucreția Angheluță, Salomeea Rotaru, Liana Miclescu, Marilena Apostolescu, Marina Vazaca, Bibliografia românească modernă (1831–1918). Vol. IV: R–Z. Bucharest: Editura științifică și enciclopedică, 1996. George Baiculescu, Georgeta Răduică, Neonila Onofrei, Publicațiile periodice românești (ziare, gazete, reviste). Vol. II: Catalog alfabetic 1907–1918. Supliment 1790–1906. Bucharest: Editura Academiei, 1969. Mihail Straje, Dicționar de pseudonime, anonime, anagrame, astronime, criptonime ale scriitorilor și publiciștilor români. Bucharest: Editura Minerva, 1973. Cristian Vasile, "Cu ochiul liber. În căutarea amorului nebun: memoriile unei actrițe", in Apostrof, Vol. XXII, Issue 5, 2011, pp. 21–22. 1872 births 1948 deaths Romanian pathologists Romanian military doctors Romanian eugenicists Romanian sexologists Hydrotherapists Hygienists Natalism Romanian book publishers (people) Romanian self-help writers Romanian biographers Male biographers 20th-century Romanian male writers 20th-century Romanian dramatists and playwrights Male dramatists and playwrights 20th-century essayists Romanian essayists Male essayists Romanian columnists Advice columnists Romanian magazine founders Romanian magazine editors Romanian writers in French Romanian propagandists Romanian nationalists Romanian political candidates Romanian civil servants Conservative Party (Romania, 1880–1918) politicians National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians People from Galați Members of the Romanian Orthodox Church Carol I National College alumni University of Bucharest alumni Romanian Land Forces officers Romanian military personnel of World War I