Octavian Paler

Paler was born in Lisa, Braşov County.He studies at Spiru Haret
High School in Bucharest In the summer of 1944, one week before graduating the
7th grade of high school, he has a wrangle with George Serban, the principle of
the school, who is his uncle, Paler is forced to leave the school and move to
Radu Negru High School from Făgăraş. Here, he studies his last grade, at the
literature profile. He has remarking results at philosophy, Latin and Greek In
1945, he graduates magna cum laude. In the same year, he takes the
school-leaving examination in Sibiu. He studies Philosophy and Law at the
University of Bucharest. He dies at the age of 80, because of a heart attack.
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