Octavian Goga was a Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist and translator born in 1881 in Rășinari, near Sibiu. He was an active member of the Romanian nationalistic movement in Transylvania and the Romanian National Party in Austro-Hungary. During World War I, he joined the Romanian Army and fought in the Dobruja campaign. Later in the interwar period, he left the Romanian National Party to join General Alexandru Averescu's populist People's Party, but resigned and withdrew to his estate in Transylvania where he suffered a stroke and died in 1938.