Radu D. Rosetti, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Radu D. Rosetti

poet, playwright and attorney

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1874

Place of Birth: Bucharest

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer, lawyer, poet, translator, human rights activist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Radu D.
Rosetti or Rossetti (December 13 or December 18, 1874 – 1964) was a Romanian poet, playwright, and short story writer, also distinguished as an attorney and activist.
The son of playwright-aristocrat Dimitrie Rosetti-Max and nephew of Titu Maiorescu, he had a troubled and rebellious youth, but kept company with senior literary figures such as Ion Luca Caragiale.
Graduating from the University of Bucharest at age 26, he was already a successful poet of neoromantic sensibilities, a published translator of plays and novels, and also famous for his unhappy marriage to the literary critic Elena Bacaloglu.
He then switched to writing social-themed plays and stories of his professional life, earning a high profile as a defender of left-wing causes.
From ca.
1913, Rosetti was also the public face of cremation activism, engaged in public polemics with the Romanian Orthodox Church. Although an artillery officer stationed in Chitila, Rosetti was mostly active during World War I as a patriotic orator and propagandist, later returning to his work at the Ilfov County bar association.
During the interwar, he maintained contact with both the socialists and the "cremationists", but grew more conservative and passeistic.
This attitude consolidated his success as the author of memoirs.
Largely forgotten in his old age, he withdrew to a garret.