Heliade-Radulescu, Ion (1802–1872)

Romanian writer, linguist, and translator. He helped to found Societatea literara (the Literary Society) in 1826 and three years later brought out the first journal in Wallachia (now part of Romania) to appear in Romanian, Curierul românesc. As the owner of the only private printing press in Bucharest, he published works of his contemporaries as well as his own and popularized the linguistic innovations that were to shape modern literary Romanian.