Barbu Nemțeanu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Barbu Nemțeanu

poet, humorist, translator

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1887

Place of Birth: Galați, Galați County, Romania

Date of Death: 30-May-1919

Profession: poet, translator, journalist, publicist

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Barbu Nemțeanu

  • Barbu Nem?eanu (pen name of Benjamin Deutsch; October 1, 1887 – May 30, 1919) was a Romanian poet, humorist and translator, active on the modernist wing of the Romanian Symbolist movement.
  • Of Jewish Romanian background, he lived much of his life in the port city of Gala?i, which provided him with poetic inspiration, but whose provincial life sparked in him intellectual revolt.
  • Orphaned and leaving school at an early age, then diagnosed with tuberculosis, he found meager employment as a clerk, but, throughout, maintained confidence in his poetic genius.
  • Nem?eanu's Symbolism blended with socialism, but also with a lasting admiration for his adoptive Romanian culture, allowing him to publish pseudonymous work in traditionalist-antisemitic reviews such as Neamul Românesc.
  • He was also one of the Symbolists who frequented the Convorbiri Critice circle, becoming personal friends with its leader, Mihail Dragomirescu. Nem?eanu was prolific as a translator of Weimar classics, German romanticists, and Yiddish literature, and then expanded his reach, learning French and contribution Romanian renditions of works by Charles Baudelaire, Tristan Klingsor, and Oscar Wilde.
  • He continued to write despite his mounting financial problems, a bankruptcy audit, and recurrent hospitalization, even contributing a set of sanitarium-themed elegies.
  • Sponsored by his literary friends, he survived through World War I, but died only months after the November Armistice, while recovering from surgery on his lungs.
  • In its final stage, his Symbolism had transitioned into one of the "intimist" poems, unpretentiously versifying the rhythms of bland life, but on a progressively experimental pattern.
  • Published by mainstream reviews such as Flacara, they were for a while the center of a literary controversy, attacked by the classicist Duiliu Zamfirescu, and ridiculed by the more radical modernists.

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