The special daughter of a special scientist
Iulia, a child genius, being the only descendant of Hasdeu's family,
was born on 2nd/14th November 1869 and died, eighteen years later, on 17th
September 1888 from the unmerciful illness tuberculosis. From a very young
age Iulia taught herself to read and write. She was gifted with a natural
tongue for foreign languages and learned in one year the same amount that
others would learn in ten. She wrote poems and prose in both Romanian and
French and at the age of 11 she graduated at « St Sava » gymnasium
and the Music Academy of Bucharest in the field of piano and canto.
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As a pupil of the " Sévigné" College of Paris, where
she continued her secondary school studies, Iulia aroused her teacher's
admiration for her brilliant intelligence. She took private lessons in
drawing, painting, piano playing and canto. She continuously wrote poems,
prose and theatre plays. At 16, after the school leaving examination, she
attended the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at " La Sorbonne". Iulia
was, therefore, the first Romanian girl-student of " La Sorbonne" University
in Paris. Meanwhile, Iulia attended courses at the Schools of Higher Studies
in Paris. A brilliant future could be foreseen for her, but...touched by
tuberculosis, in spite of the dedicated efforts of her parents to save
her, Iulia gave herself to death, in peace, in the knowledge that this
would be only a moment of passage. Her literary creation was to appear
posthumously, under her father's careful watch, at Hachette-Paris, in three
volumes " Bougeons d'Avril" (Buds of April), "Chevalerie" (Order of the
Knights) and "Théâtre. Légendes et contes" (" Theatre.
Legends and tales"). |
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