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, fighting for Romanian rights under Austro-Hungarian rule. During World War I, he joined the Romanian Army and fought in the Dobruja campaign. Later in the interwar period, he joined the populist People's Party led by Alexandru Averescu before resigning from politics and dying of a stroke in 1938.