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About Artur Enășescu
- Artur Ena?escu (pen name of Artur A.
- Enacescu; January 19 (or 12), 1889–December 4, 1942) was a Romanian poet. Born in Boto?ani, his parents were Alexandru Enacescu, a Post, Telegraph, Telephone (PTT) employee, and his wife Olga (née Nacu).
- He began school in his native town in 1896 and entered A.
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- Laurian High School, which he attended from 1900 to 1903.
- He then transferred to the National College, where he studied from 1904 to 1905, but only obtained a degree at Boto?ani in 1913 or 1914.
- For a time, it was believed that he audited university courses in Paris in 1911 and 1912, but he in fact worked as a clerk in Boto?ani during this period, except for a brief stay in Paris in the summer of 1912.
- His first published work was "Amor", a sonnet that appeared in Convorbiri critice in 1910.
- Other magazines that featured his verses include Flacara, Moldova, Rampa, Epoca, Convorbiri literare, Vremuri noua, Solia, Îndrumarea, Junimea Moldovei de Nord, Luceafarul, Cuvântul liber, Universul liber, Familia, Propilee literare and Ideea literara.
- Drafted into the Romanian Army when his country entered World War I in 1916, Ena?escu saw action at Oituz and Magura Ca?inului.
- He was an editor for the Boto?ani-based Îndrumarea in 1918 and for the Bucharest Luceafarul in 1919-1920.
- Due to an illness, he stayed in a sanatorium at Sibiu from 1920 to 1922.
- His only book published during his lifetime was the 1920 Pe gânduri, which appeared thanks to the effort of his friends.
- From 1928, the disease of his nervous system became irreversible.
- In the 1930s, with his lost mind, he was a vagabond, sleeping in passageways or under the staircase of the Ferdinand Hotel.
- He cut a tragic and colorful figure in the landscape of downtown Bucharest, as recorded by artists Ion Sava and Aurel Jiquidi.
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