Ion Șiugariu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ion Șiugariu

Date of Birth: 06-Jun-1914

Place of Birth: Băița, Maramureș County, Romania

Date of Death: 01-Feb-1945

Profession: poet, literary critic, diarist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Ion Șiugariu

  • Ion ?iugariu (June 6, 1914–February 1, 1945) was a Romanian poet. Born in Bai?a, Maramure? County, then part of Austria-Hungary, his parents were Ion ?ugar, a miner, and his wife Floarea (née Griga).
  • He was the first of six sons, and from age seven to ten was obliged to work in gold mining to help support the poor family.
  • Following the union of Transylvania with Romania, he attended primary school in his native village and in Valea Borcutului, finishing in 1928.
  • He then went to the normal school in Oradea from 1928 to 1932 and to the city's Emanuil Gojdu High School from 1932 to 1936.
  • There, he was mentored by Octav ?ulu?iu, who introduced him to the Familia circle.
  • From 1937 to 1942, he attended the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University, graduating with a thesis on the journalistic aspect of modern literature.His later university years coincided with Romania's participation in World War II, and ?iugariu was briefly called up twice during this period.
  • In July 1942, he obtained a passport and crossed into Hungarian-occupied Northern Transylvania, seeing his parents for the last time in Bai?a.
  • Considered undesirable by the temporary authorities due to his political stance, he had to take a 12 km walk daily to the gendarmes' post for visa purposes.
  • He attempted a second trip later that year, but was denied approval.
  • In January 1943, he became a reserve officer and was sent to Ploie?ti for training, then to an infantry regiment in Bacau, in the Moldavia region.
  • That July, during a two-week leave, he married pharmacy student Lucia Stroescu in Râmnicu Vâlcea.
  • In 1944, after the King Michael Coup, he participated in the Romanian Army's push into Central Europe, reaching the Czechoslovak Front.
  • He was killed in early 1945 during the battle for the Slovak town of Brezno.
  • The same year, he was posthumously decorated with the Order of the Crown.
  • Devastated by the news, his 56-year-old father died of double pneumonia a month after his son.
  • In 1956, he was reburied in the Romanian military cemetery at Zvolen.?iugariu's first published work was "Imnul tinere?ii", a poem that appeared in the Beiu? magazine Observatorul in 1934.
  • His first book was the 1938 poetry volume Trecere prin alba poarta, followed by two other collections: Paradisul peregrinar (1942) and ?ara de foc (1943).
  • He contributed critical commentary and poems to the magazines Familia, Universul literar, Gând românesc, Pagini literare, Gândirea and Vremea.
  • Carnetele unui poet cazut în razboi was published in 1968 through the efforts of Lauren?iu Fulga.
  • This was a diary in epistolary form, written with a lucidity reminiscent of Camil Petrescu.
  • The book also contains a set of previously unpublished poems.
  • ?iugariu's verses alternate between an exuberance for life and a nostalgia for salvation.

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