TERTULIAN, NICOLAE

TERTULIAN, NICOLAE, originally Nathan Veinstein (1929– ), Romanian literary critic and editor. One of Romania's most respected literary scholars, Tertulian edited the weekly Contemporanul (1948–54) and from 1954 was an editor of Viata Româneasca, the organ of the Romanian Writers' Union. He was a prominent figure at many international literary congresses. Tertulian's works include Probleme ale literaturii de evocare istorica (1954), Esseuri (1968), and Evolutia spirituala a lui George Lukacs (1969). From the 1980s he lived in France, where he wrote about Romanian culture. He also published several works on Heidegger there as well as focusing on the literary and esthetic works of Lukacs and on Croce's basic concepts of the role played by culture in the life of a society.