Nicolae Nicoleanu (born Neagoe Tomo?oiu; June 16, 1835–April 7, 1871) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian poet.
Born in Cernatu Sacelelor, a village near Bra?ov in the Austrian Empire, he crossed into Wallachia to attend the episcopal seminary in Buzau, followed by the National College in Craiova.
Aged 23, he left for Paris, returning three years later after passing through Berlin and Antwerp.
He began his journalistic career at C.
A.
Rosetti's Românul.
At age 27, having moved to Moldavia, he was a clerk in Roman; at 29, he was a school director in the provincial capital Ia?i.
He then worked as a clerk at the State Archives; spent a year as school inspector for Ia?i, Vaslui and Falciu counties; was a clerk in the Education Ministry and a secretary at the State Archives in the Wallachian capital Bucharest.
He went insane at age 33 and never recovered, dying at a hospice in Pantelimon.
His only published book, a collection of verses called Poezii and prefaced by Iacob Negruzzi, appeared at Ia?i in 1865.