Octav Botez

Octav Botez (born Panaite-Octavian Botez; May 15, 1884–September 25, 1943) was a Romanian literary critic and historian.

Born in Iași, his father Panait was a general in the Romanian Army, his mother was Smaranda (née Nastasachi) and his brother was Eugeniu Botez. He attended primary school in the Sărărie neighborhood, followed by the National College and then the literature faculty of the University of Iași, where he studied between 1901 and 1906. His first published work appeared in 1904 in Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol's Arhiva review. He passed a qualifying examination in 1909 for French and philosophy, and taught high school from 1909 to 1913. In 1923, he earned a doctorate in philosophy, with a thesis on Xenopol as theoretician and philosopher of history, and was granted the title of docent in 1930.

He died in Iași in 1943. A street there now bears his name.