N. Petrașcu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

N. Petrașcu

Romanian writer

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1859

Place of Birth: Tecuci, Galați County, Romania

Date of Death: 24-May-1944

Profession: writer, diplomat, art historian, art critic, literary critic, memoirist, opinion journalist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About N. Petrașcu

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  • Petra?cu or Petra?cu (common renditions of Nicolae Petra?cu [niko'la.e pe'tra?ku]/[p?'tra?ku]; born Nicolae Petrovici ['petrovit???]; ; December 5, 1859 - May 24, 1944) was a Romanian journalist, essayist, literary critic, novelist, and memoirist.
  • The author of monographs on major figures in Romanian literature, Petra?cu was originally affiliated with the conservative literary society Junimea, but did not embrace all its tenets.
  • Like his friend, novelist Duiliu Zamfirescu, he parted with the group and, together with Dimitrie C.
  • Ollanescu-Ascanio, established a new circle around the magazine Literatura ?i Arta Româna ("Romanian Literature and Art"). During the 1890s, his group carried an extended polemic with Junimea, and Petra?cu developed his own tenets, which took Historicism, Sociological positivism, and Determinism as its main sources of inspiration.
  • He was also noted for endorsing the views of Western European thinkers such as Hippolyte Taine and Émile Hennequin.
  • In this context, he engaged in public debates with the Junimist intellectuals Titu Maiorescu, P.
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  • Negulescu, and Mihail Dragomirescu.
  • Alongside Ollanescu-Ascanio and Zamfirescu, his circle came to include, among others, poet Alexandru Vlahu?a, novelist Gala Galaction, and architect Ion Mincu.
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  • Petra?cu was the brother of Gheorghe Petra?cu, a renowned painter.Petra?cu authored a single novel, titled Marin Gelea.
  • The work deals with the status of geniuses in the late 19th century Romanian Kingdom, and contains several references to important cultural figures of the day.

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