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March 1989 – Writer, philosopher, jurist, monk NICOLAE STEINHARDT
passed away at Rohia Monastery, county of Maramureș. Studies at “Spiru
Haret” Secondary School of Bucharest (1922 – 1929), at the Faculties of
Philology and Law of the University of Bucharest (1929 – 1934), with a
doctor’s degree in law (1936), specialisation in France (Paris) and
England (1936 – 1939). Lawyer in the Bar of Bucharest. Arrested in 1959
in the “group of the mystic-religious intellectuals” and sentenced to 12
years of “forced labour” for “having plotted against the state social
order”. Baptised in the prison of Jilava (15 March 1960) by hieromonk
Mina Dobzeu. Released in August 1964, later on he joined the community
of Rohia Monastery where he was tonsured into monasticism on 16 August
1980, with the name of Nicolae, and where he lived till he died. Works:
Between life and books (1976); Literary incertitude (1980); Stopovers in
time and space or beyond texts (1980); Though other people to me
(1988). Posthumous: Polyphonic monologue (1991)¸ Diary of Happiness
(1991, 7th edition, 2002); The Monk from Rohia answers 365 inconvenient
questions Zaharia Sângeorzan asks (1992, a new edition in 1998); While
giving you will get. Words of faith (1992, 1994); Danger of confession.
Discussions with Ioan Pintea (1993, 1998); Between worlds. Discussions
with Nicoale Băciuț (1994); Book of the Holy Communion (1995); Ways to
quietness (1999); Temptation of reading (2000); God in which you say you
do not believe…Letters to Virgil Ierunca (1967 – 1983) (2000).
