Known in Romania more as poet and politician, Octavian Goga was also playwright, journalist, and translator. He was born on April 1, 1881 in the village Răşinari, near Sibiu (in Transylvania, back then in Austro-Hungary), as son of Joseph Goga, an Orthodox priest, and Aurelia, teacher. In 1900, after the high school graduation, he joined the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at the University of Budapest, then continued his studies in Berlin.
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