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Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu (September 15, 1916 – June 22, 1992, Paris, France) was a Romanian writer, best known for his 1949 novel, ''The 25th Hour''. ==Life== Virgil Gheorghiu was born in Valea Albă, a village in Războieni Commune, Neamţ County, in Romania. His father was an Orthodox priest in Petricani. A top student, he attended high school in Chişinău from 1928 to June 1936, after which he studied philosophy and theology at the University of Bucharest and at the Heidelberg University. Between 1942 and 1943, during the regime of General Ion Antonescu, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Romania as an embassy secretary. He went into exile when Soviet troops entered Romania in 1944. Arrested at the end of World War II by American troops, he eventually settled in France in 1948. A year later, he published the novel ''Ora 25'' (in French: ''La vingt-cinquième heure''; in English: ''The Twenty-Fifth Hour''), written during his captivity. Gheorghiu was ordained a priest of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Paris on May 23, 1963. In 1966, Patriarch Justinian awarded him the cross of the Romanian Patriarchate for his liturgical and literary activities. He is buried in the Passy Cemetery, in Paris. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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