Dumitru Popovici

Dumitru Popovici (October 25, 1902–December 6, 1952) was a Romanian literary historian.

Born in Dăneasa, Olt County, his parents were Ioan Popovici, a teacher, and his wife Ioana (née Popescu). After attending primary school in nearby Șerbănești from 1909 to 1914, he studied at Radu Greceanu High School in Slatina from 1914 to 1923. Popovici then went to the literature faculty of the University of Bucharest from 1923 to 1927, earning a doctorate there in 1935. From 1924 to 1926, he was honorific teaching assistant to Dumitru Caracostea. He taught high school in Slatina (1927–1930) and Iași (1930–1936). From 1936 until his death, he was a professor in the literature faculty of the University of Cluj. From 1930 to 1934, he audited the Modern Greek courses of André Mirambel in Paris. He also took classes with Daniel Mornet, Fernand Baldensperger, Paul Hazard, and Mario Roques, shifting toward studies of comparative literature and working as a lecturer on the Romanian language at the Sorbonne and the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes.

He married Elvira Chiffa, also a professor; the couple's daughter, , herself became a literary historian and critic.