Ioan A. Bassarabescu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ioan A. Bassarabescu

Romanian writer and politician

Date of Birth: 17-Dec-1870

Place of Birth: Giurgiu, Giurgiu County, Romania

Date of Death: 27-Mar-1952

Profession: writer, poet, politician, translator

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Ioan A. Bassarabescu

  • Ioan Alecu Bassarabescu (commonly rendered I.
  • A.
  • Bassarabescu; December 17, 1870 - March 27, 1952) was a Romanian comedic writer, civil servant and politician, who served one term (1926-1927) in the Senate of Romania.
  • His work, mainly in prose form, is remembered as an accomplished and noteworthy contribution to Romanian literature, capturing the dreary life of provincial clerks in the early 20th century.
  • Not interested in producing a singular novel, like his mentor Gustave Flaubert, he concentrated instead on the sketch story genre. In his debut stage, Bassarabescu belonged to Junimea, the mainly literary and politically conservative club.
  • He was friends with Titu Maiorescu, Junimea leader, and with the Junimist author Ioan Alexandru Bratescu-Voine?ti (with whom he is often compared).
  • Married into a political family, Bassarabescu had joined the Conservative Party by 1906, and, although still mainly active as a teacher, received high appointments in the bureaucracy. During World War I, Bassarabescu he supported the Central Powers and was even appointed Prefect of Prahova County under a German-led occupation.
  • This put his political career on hold until 1925, when he joined the People's Party.
  • Moving into right-wing populism in the 1930s, Bassarabescu had stints in the National Agrarian Party and the National Christian Party, and joined the official National Renaissance Front in 1939.
  • His last years were spent in seclusion: losing his fortune to Allied carpet bombing, stripped of his Romanian Academy membership by the communist regime, he died suddenly in a road accident.

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