Cristian Bădiliță

Biography

Born in Săveni, Romania where he lived until the age of 14. He settled afterwards in Botoșani, where he studied at the A. T. Laurian High School. His debut was in 1982 when he published his first poems in Athenaeum magazine. In 1986 he had a second literary debut, again with poetry, in "Chronicle", an important cultural magazine in Iași. After his traumatic experience in the communist compulsory military service (narrated later on in "The Gordian Knot") Bădiliță followed for two years the courses of the Faculty of Letters in Bucharest (Romanian - French department), having as mentors famous personalities as: Cornel Mihai Ionescu, Florea Fugaru, Ioan Pânzaru and Pan M. Vizirescu, the last remarkable survivor of "Gandirea" magazine. In 1990 he transferred to the Classical Languages department, where he met the remarkable scholar Petru Cretia. Their friendship resulted in a writing on The Book on Revelation of John. In 1991–1992 Bădiliță studied theology at the Seminario Conciliar in Madrid. At the Seminar he studied with professors like the patrologist Juan Ayan Calvo and the specialist in the phenomenology of religion, Juan Martin Velasco. He taught ancient Greek language and literature at the University of Timişoara, before he settled in France in 1995, together with his wife, Smaranda Bădiliță, specialist in Philon of Alexandria. He holds a PhD in ancient history of Christianity at the University Paris IV Sorbonne with a thesis "Les métamorphoses de l'Antichrist chez les Peres de l'Eglise", Distinction summa cum laude. The jury included: Monique Alexandre, Jean-Noël Guinot, Jean-Claude Fredouille, Enrico Norelli and Olivier Munnich. The work was awarded the "Salomon Reinach" Prize of the Hellenistic Association in France. Bădiliță specialized in Greek and Latin patristic literature. In 2001 he started to collaborate with New Europe College in Bucharest, by organizing an international conferences on John Cassian and another on the fathers of the church in the 20th century. He organized the third international conference on patristic and ecumenism at Constanța University. Also within the New Europe College from 2003 to 2011 he has been coordinating together with Francisca Băltăceanu and Monica Brosteanu, the commented translation of the Septuagint, a project published in collaboration with the "Polirom" Publishing House and the "Anonymous Foundation". He coordinated the first scientific edition of the Writings of Nicolae Steinhardt published by "Humanitas". He is currently working on a commented translation of the New Testament. He considers himself a Christian right-wing anarchist and advocates for the restoration of monarchy in Romania. He is a critic of the communist and neo-communist imposture, often expressing his reservations against the modern ochlocratic system in Romania. He actively participated in the revolt of December 1989 and the organization of protests in the Bucharest University Square (1990). He was fellow of the Institute of Culture in Trento and Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin. He participated in numerous international conferences, as well as in writing collective volumes, magazines and international dictionaries. On 22 December 2009 he launched the cultural religious electronic magazine "Oglindanet".

Publications

Editions and anthologies

Commented Translations from Greek and Latin