Octavian Goga was a Romanian politician, poet, playwright, journalist, and translator who was 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 before World War I. Goga served as Prime Minister of Romania from December 1937 to February 1938, during which time he introduced anti-Semitic laws that stripped Romanian Jews of their citizenship. He resigned shortly after and died in May 1938 after suffering a stroke.