Vasile Păun, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Wallachian-born Romanian poet, theorist and literary critic
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About Vasile Păun
- Vasile Paun (Romanian pronunciation: [va'sile p?'un]; February 9, 1850–March 1, 1908) was a Wallachian, later Romanian poet, theorist and literary critic. Born in Bucharest, he attended gymnasium (Gheorghe Lazar) and high school (Saint Sava) in his native city.
- He briefly worked as a government clerk, then graduated from the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University.
- In 1877, he began teaching Romanian and Latin at Cantemir Voda Gymnasium, becoming its director in 1878.
- In 1879, he was hired to teach at Saint Sava.
- Named "principal preceptor" to Prince Ferdinand, heir to the Romanian throne, Paun spent a number of years with the prince in Germany, where he took the occasion to further his own studies.
- From 1890, he was a professor at Gheorghe Lazar High School, where he served as director from 1892 to 1903.He made his literary debut in 1868 with Umbra lui Mihai, a poem in three cantos that appeared in Grigore H.
- Grandea's Albina Pindului, to which he continued to contribute, sometimes under the pen names Basiliu Dimitrescu and Vasile Demetrescu.
- Together with Anghel Demetrescu, another prestigious schoolteacher, he belonged to Orientul, a literary society organized around Grandea, and through which he became acquainted with Mihai Eminescu.
- By 1870, the latter was appealing to Iacob Negruzzi on behalf of his "discouraged friend" Paun, whose poems Negruzzi had declined to publish in Convorbiri Literare.
- Other magazines to which he submitted poems, as well as prose, criticism and literary reviews include Traian, Columna lui Traian, Foaia Societa?ii "Românismul", Foaia Societa?ii "Rena?terea", Povestitorul, România Literara and Românul literar.
- His first published book was the 1877 Oda la resbel.After 1890, Paun's interests shifted away from poetry and toward criticism, as well as literary and art theory.
- He published the biographical sketch Ferdinand de Hohenzolern (1889); Catastrofa Nibelungilor, a "literary critical analysis" (1896); Fic?iune, imagine ?i compara?iune.
- Studiu comparativ de literatura poetica (1896); Sihastrul.
- Poveste poetica (1896) and Înrudirea poeziei cu celelalte arte frumoase (muzica, pictura, plastica ?i arhitectura) (1898).
- He wrote for Vatra and for Literatura ?i arta româna, edited by his friend N.
- Petra?cu.
- From 1897 to 1899, he was editor-in-chief of Revista societa?ii "Tinerimea româna", and co-edited Apararea na?ionala, where he sometimes signed as Davus or Pavo Zorila.
- Until the year of his death, he wrote a weekly review column, "Note ?i reflexiuni", in Secolul.
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