Eugène van Itterbeek – The Western Sage at Sibiu and Cisnădioara

This article centers on the extraordinary figure of Belgian intellectual, Eugène van Itterbeek, philologist and poet who decided in 1994 to settle in Romania, at Sibiu and Cisnădioara. He was a founder of East-West Poetry Centre, chief editor of Transilvania and Saeculum, professor at University Lucian Blaga of Sibiu and coordinator for many years of Emil Cioran International Colloquiam.