Ștefan Orășanu

Ștefan Orășanu (7 January 1869 – 12 November 1903) was a Romanian historian, literary critic and poet.

Born to a Romanian Orthodox priest in Bucharest, he attended elementary and high school in his native city. In 1901, Orășanu graduated from the University of Bucharest's literature and philosophy faculty. The following year, he obtained a scholarship to study modern and contemporary history in Germany, but was unable to benefit from this due to the disease that would soon claim his life. From 1895, he was a clerk at the Romanian Academy Library. In 1900, he joined the editorial committee of Convorbiri Literare magazine. He substituted for Nicolae Iorga at Bucharest's history faculty in 1901. His contributions also appeared in Economia națională, Epoca, Liga literară, Literatorul, Noua revistă română, Revista independentă, Revista societății "Tinerimea română", Revista poporului, România Literară and Românul literar. He sometimes used the pen names Polit and Z. Miron.

Together with Ioan Bianu, he prepared a Romanian edition of a book by Alexandre Maurice Blanc de Lanautte, Comte d'Hauterive; this appeared in 1902 as Memoriu asupra vechei și actualei stări a Moldovei prezentat lui Alexandru Vodă Ipsilante la 1787.