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Place of Birth: tohat, Maramureș County, Romania
About Petre Dulfu
- Petre Dulfu (March 10, 1856–October 31, 1953) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian poet, translator and playwright. Born in Tohat, Maramure? County, his parents were Nichifor Dulfu and his wife Agapia (née Bran), members of the rural intellectual class.
- From early childhood, his mother inspired a love of stories in him.
- He attended Hungarian-language primary school and gymnasium in Baia Mare from 1864 to 1871, earning top marks, and went to high school in the same town from 1872.
- In 1876, he graduated from high school in Cluj, where he studied for two years.
- He attended Franz Joseph University in the latter city, earning a doctorate in philosophy in 1881.
- His thesis, written in Hungarian, dealt with the work of Vasile Alecsandri, surveyed the Romanian literary context and included a dozen poems translated by Dulfu.
- After graduation, he moved to the Romanian Old Kingdom and worked as a teacher.
- After a brief stint in the capital Bucharest, he directed and taught at a school in Turnu Severin for the 1881-1882 year.
- Beginning in 1882, he again taught philosophy and later Romanian in Bucharest; one of the two schools where he worked was for girls.
- He came to know faculty colleague Ioan Slavici, as well as Mihail Eminescu, Alexandru Vlahu?a and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu.
- In 1886, he married Elena Mateescu, with whom he had four children and who encouraged his work as a writer.
- He obtained Romanian citizenship in 1891.
- During World War I, he worked as a postal censor in the temporary capital of Ia?i, where an illness claimed one of his daughters.
- Although normally a disciplined teacher, he lost his composure on December 1, 1918, the day the union of Transylvania with Romania was proclaimed; cutting short the lesson and visibly moved, he explained the significance of the event to his pupils.
- In 1921, he retired from the girls' school, as the pupils daily reminded him of his deceased daughter.His first published work consisted of verses that appeared in Familia in 1874.
- His contributions appeared in magazines both pedagogical (Educatorul, Lumina pentru to?i, Revista pedagogica) and literary (Amicul familiei, ?ezatoarea, Tribuna).
- In 1911, he joined the Romanian Writers' Society.
- In 1903, he was awarded the Romanian Academy's Adamachi Prize for his translations of Euripides (Ifigenia în Aulida, 1879; Ifigenia în Taurida, 1880) and for the 1894 Ispravile lui Pacala, the volume that secured his reputation as a writer.
- He wrote two plays: the moralizing one-act Cearta pentru nimica (1889) and Pacala argat, a dramatization of his favorite character, Pacala.
- His final work, Cei doi fe?i-logofe?i cu parul de aur, appeared in 1939.
- A gifted teacher and a cultural figure concerned with educating the peasantry, his poetic renditions of folklore were deemed "good writings for the common people" by George Calinescu.
- He died in Bucharest.The Maramure? County library in Baia Mare has borne his name since 1992.
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