Alexandru Mironescu

Alexandru Mironescu (July 23, 1903 – January 20, 1973) was a Romanian prose writer.

Born in Tecuci, his parents were Victor Mironescu and his wife Elena. After attending Dimitrie Cantemir High School in Bucharest, he obtained degrees in chemistry and philosophy from the University of Bucharest. He later obtained a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Bucharest.

Mironescu's first book was the 1937 novel Oamenii nimănui. His work appeared in Evenimentul zilei, Fapta, Familia, Azi, Țara noastră, Vremea, and Revista Fundațiilor Regale. He also wrote the novel Destrămare (1939), the unpublished play Joc în umbră and a few philosophical works. He authored a number of organic chemistry textbooks and treatises, and translated André Gide's

A devoted practitioner of hesychasm, an adherent of the "Burning Bush" (Rugul Aprins) group within the Romanian Orthodox Church. He stopped publishing after the advent of the Communist regime, In November of that year, he was sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment for "conspiracy against the social order" by the Bucharest Military Tribunal. After spending time at the Jilava and Aiud prisons, he was freed in November 1963. Even in 1968, at the height of Nicolae Ceaușescu's popularity, he confided in his diary that he viewed the regime as disastrous and doomed to fall.

Mironescu died in Bucharest at age 69. In 2017, he was made Honorary Citizen of his native city, Tecuci.