Succeeded by Miron Cristea Parents Iosif Goga, Aurelia Goga | Preceded by Gheorghe Tatarescu Nationality Romanian Name Octavian Goga Education Eotvos Lorand University | |
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Spouse(s) 1906-1920: Hortensia (b. Cosma) (first wife); 1921-1938: Veturia (b. Muresan) (second wife) Books A Prayer, Ne cheama pamantul, Cantece fara tara Political party Similar People Imre Madach, Eugen Simion, A C Cuza | ||
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Octavian Goga ([oktaviˈan ˈɡoɡa]; 1 April 1881 – 7 May 1938) was a Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator.
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Life and politics
Goga was born in Rasinari, near Sibiu.
Goga was an active member in the Romanian nationalistic movement in Transylvania and of its leading group, the Romanian National Party (PNR) in Austro-Hungary. Before World War I, Goga was arrested by the Hungarian authorities. At various intervals before the union of Romania and Transylvania in 1918, Goga took refuge in Romania, becoming active in literary and political circles. Because of his political activity in Romania, the Hungarian state sentenced him to death in absentia.
During World War I, he joined the Romanian army and took part as a soldier in the occupation of Dobrudja.
In the interwar period he left the PNR to join General Alexandru Averescu's People's Party (PP), a populist movement created upon the war's end.
Goga clashed with Averescu over the latter's conflict with King Carol II. A founder of the minor PP splinter group naming itself the National Agrarian Party, he led it into an alliance with A. C. Cuza's National-Christian Defense League, forming the National Christian Party.
Goga became Prime Minister of Romania and served from 28 December 1937 to 10 February 1938. He had been appointed by King Carol, in his attempt to enforce his own personal dictatorship.
Very early in its tenure, Goga's government introduced a series of anti-Semitic laws. On 12 January 1938 his government stripped Romanian Jews of their citizenship. Besides being an anti-Semite himself, Goga attempted to outflank the Iron Guard's popular support.
The regime instituted by Goga and Cuza gave itself a paramilitary wing of Fascist character, the Lancieri ("Lance-bearers"). They borrowed heavily from the Iron Guard, and started competing with it for public attention.
After his resignation, Goga withdrew to his estate in Transylvania, where he suffered a stroke on 5 May 1938. He died two days later.
Poetry
Plays
Other
In addition, Goga is known as the translator of works by Sandor Petofi, Endre Ady, and Imre Madach.