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About Constantin T. Stoika
- Constantin T.
- Stoika (February 14, 1892 – October 23, 1916) was a Romanian poet and prose writer. Born in Buzau to journalist Titus Stoika and his wife Irena (née Ciorogârleanu), he attended primary school in Piatra Neam? and in the then-Austro-Hungarian Bra?ov.
- He also began at a gymnasium there, and completed this stage of his schooling at Buzau and Slatina.
- This was followed by high school in Pite?ti and the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University, from which he graduated in 1916.
- He made his published debut while still in high school, with poems (Preludii) and short prose works, published in 1909-1910 in Tinerimea literara ?i artistica, which he edited together with his brother Cezar.
- He contributed to the Ploie?ti-based Curierul liceului in 1910-1911.He was a member of the Gion literary society and of Societatea critica student circle, led by Mihail Dragomirescu.
- In 1914-1915, he edited Poezia magazine, which welcomed submissions from the younger generation while gaining prestige from the contributions of Duiliu Zamfirescu, George Murnu, Ovid Densusianu, Gala Galaction and Dragomirescu.
- His work also featured in Drum drept, Dumineca, Epoca, Neamul românesc literar, Noua revista româna, Ramuri, Saptamâna politica ?i culturala a capitalei, Universul literar and Viea?a Noua.
- Pen names that he used include Delazili?te, Tarmes, Tartar, Sapiens, Micado, Costo, Amor, St., Troedo and Ego.
- He collected his verses in the 1910 book Licariri.
- He translated works by Charles Baudelaire, Sully Prudhomme, Paul Verlaine, Jean Racine, Ludwig Uhland and Joséphin Péladan; the French poetry of Iulia Hasdeu; and Horace and Lucretius.In 1914, he graduated from the military artillery school.
- Given the rank of second lieutenant, he was assigned to a border regiment and sent to the frontier with Austria-Hungary.
- He was killed in action on the Carpathian front two months after Romania's entry into World War I and decorated post-mortem.
- His war diary was published as ĂŽnsemnari din zilele de lupta in 1921 and 1977.
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