Barbu Lăzăreanu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Barbu Lăzăreanu

Romanian literary historian, bibliographer, and left-wing activist

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1881

Place of Birth: Botoșani, Botoșani County, Romania

Date of Death: 19-Jan-1957

Profession: poet, historian, biographer, literary critic, children's writer, philologist, literary historian, trade unionist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Barbu Lăzăreanu

  • Barbu Lazareanu (born Avram Lazarovici, also known as Barbou Lazareano or Barbu Lazarescu; October 5, 1881 – January 19, 1957) was a Romanian literary historian, bibliographer, and left-wing activist.
  • Of Romanian Jewish background, he became noted for both his social criticism and his lyrical pieces while still in high school, subsequently developing as a satirist and printing his own humorous magazine, ?ivil-Cazon.
  • Lazareanu's youthful sympathies veered toward the anarchist underground, prompting him to associate with Panait Mu?oiu. Lazareanu's socialist-and-anarchist advocacy also made him a target of the conservative establishment, which expelled him from the country in 1907.
  • He spent five years studying at the École des Hautes Études in Paris, all the while remaining attacked to socialist organizations.
  • He returned to Romania as a publicist, columnist, and workers' educator.
  • During World War I, Lazareanu drifted leftward alongside the Social Democratic Party, joining the Socialist Party.
  • He also earned the reputation of a highly focused literary researcher and biographer, noted as the editor of works by Ion Luca Caragiale and Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea.
  • His series of monographs on Romanian literature was well received by other literary professionals, though his attention for detail and his political bias were both ridiculed. By 1933, Lazareanu was a public critic of fascism, a fact which contributed to his persecution by the antisemitic far-right in the 1940s.
  • He still managed to write and publish under the National Renaissance Front, but was afterwards marginalized.
  • Having narrowly escaped a deportation to Transnistria and a likely death in 1942, he returned to public life after the 1944 Coup and subsequent democratization.
  • He rose to prominence post-1948, under the Romanian communist regime, first as a rector of ?tefan Gheorghiu Academy, then as a member of the Romanian Academy and its Presidium.
  • Lazareanu spent his final decade as a decorated and lionized writer and political forerunner of the regime.
  • As a librarian, he collected, preserved, and censored works left by Panait Istrati.
  • He was also marginally involved in the orthographic reform.
  • Lazareanu's final assignments included a steering position on the Jewish Democratic Committee, which functioned as a platform for anti-Zionism.
  • His political activity was complemented by his son Alexandru, who had a high-ranking position in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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