Dumitru D. Roá¹£ca (January 29, 1895 â August 25, 1980) was a Romanian philosopher, professor and member of the Romanian Academy.
Dumitru Roà Âca attended philosophy classes in Paris at Sorbonne. He is best known for his doctoral thesis defended at Sorbonne in 1928: "The Influence of Taine on Hegel". The book was dedicated to ÃÂmile Bréhier.
Dumitru Roà Âca translated Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel's works into Romanian. He also translated Hegel's "Life of Jesus" into French.
He published in French "Existénce tragique: An Attempt of Philosophical Synthesis". He contributed through his writings to the theory of existentialism.
His works were influenced by Hegel and Søren Kierkegaard.