Henri Wald

Henri "Ricu" Wald (October 31, 1920 – July 14, 2002)[1], also known as Henry Wald[1], was a Romanian professor, philosopher, logician, and essayist.[2]

Early life

Wald was born to a family of small merchants in Bucharest, the capital of Romania.[2] Wald first became interested in philosophy at age sixteen, during a lecture given by one of his teachers.[1] He was forced to leave high school in 1940 due to discriminatory anti-Jewish laws.[2] Thus, Wald studied at a private college for Jewish students.[2]

Career

During World War II, Wald served in a forced labor detachment due to him being Jewish.[2] In terms of his political views, Wald was a Communist and "a radical antifascist".[2] Wald began publishing in September 1944 in the newspaper Tribuna poporului (The People’s Tribune).[2] In addition, he also contributed to several additional leftist periodicals and to some cultural publications as well.[2] Wald graduated from the faculty of philosophy at the University of Bucharest in 1946, after writing a dissertation called “The Petty Bourgeois Mentality.”[1][2] Wald became a professor of philosophy in Bucharest in 1948, a job which he occupied until 1962 (when he was fired due to his opposition to the official "nationalist-communism" stance of the then-Romanian government).[2] Wald worked in several other educational institutions as well until his retirement in 1983.[2] Due to his political commitments, Wald also worked in the propaganda department for the Communist Romanian regime in the late 1940s and early 1950s.[2] Later on in his life, Wald became significantly closer to Judaism, which he thought was a "matrix of humanist thinking".[2] Late in his life, the Romanian Radio Broadcasting Company’s Center for Oral History (C.O.H.) conducted an interview with Wald where he talked about and discussed his life story.[1] Wald died in 2002, at the age of 80.[2][1]

gollark: According to xkcd, keeping updated would only require 5 printers worth of throughput, which is not very much in terms of bitrate.
gollark: I mean, it's probably way more complicated, but basically you can't send information faster than light that way.
gollark: Anyway, my knowledge of this is not very detailed, but IIRC quantum entanglement means that if you observe one particle the other one collapses into another state, or something like that, and you don't control which state is picked, so you can't send any data.
gollark: Yes. I think they might strip a bunch of the images, but with *no* media, just text content, it's 15GB.
gollark: You can't use quantum entanglement to actually transmit any data.

References
  1. "Henry Wald – 80". Romanian Jewish Heritage. Sep 2000. Archived from the original on 2014-01-18. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
  2. "Wald, Henri". The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Retrieved 2018-07-02.
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