Gheorghe Cardaș

Gheorghe Cardaș (1899 – 1983) was a Romanian literary historian.

Born in Drăgușeni, Suceava County, his parents were Gheorghe Cardaș and his wife Amalia (née Camondo), and he came from an intellectual family. He attended primary school in his native village and the nearby rural localities Topile and Siliștea. Cardaș then attended high school at Fălticeni (1913–1915), Bucharest (1915–1916) and Roman (1917–1921). In 1924, he obtained a degree from the literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Bucharest. He later took specialized courses on the history of Romanian literature at Bucharest and in comparative literature at the University of Paris from 1926 to 1927. A high-level clerk at the Romanian Academy Library from 1921 to 1933, he was a teaching assistant at the University of Bucharest from 1932 to 1943 and a scientific researcher at the Romanian Academy's history institute from 1950 to 1953; also a Member of the Writers' Union of Romania. From 1958 to 1964, under the communist regime, Cardaș was imprisoned at Jilava and Gherla prisons.