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Place of Birth: Tichilești, Braila, Romania
About Constantin Sandu-Aldea
- Constantin Sandu-Aldea (November 22, 1874 – March 21, 1927) was a Romanian agronomist and prose writer. Born in Tichile?ti, Braila County, his parents were the cart driver Sandu Petrea Pârjol and his wife Tudora.
- After completing studies at Nicolae Balcescu High School in Braila, he attended the Bucharest-based Herastrau Agriculture School between 1892 and 1896, graduating as an agronomist.
- He did not find a job in the field, but instead worked as an estate administrator at Crivina, Prahova County; a fisheries agent; a Caile Ferate Române clerk and an editor and proofreader for Floare-albastra, Epoca, România juna and Apararea na?ionala magazines.
- Between 1901 and 1907, he took advanced courses at the École nationale supérieure d'horticulture in Versailles; he studied at the Agricultural University of Berlin from 1904 and earned a doctorate in 1906.
- Sandu-Aldea worked as a teaching assistant for applied agriculture and zootechnics at the model farm in Laza, Vaslui County; served as bureau chief in the Agriculture and Domains Ministry; and, from 1908, was professor and director of the Herastrau school.
- He was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1919.Sandu-Aldea made his literary debut with poems in Viea?a (1896), also writing for Lumea noua literara ?i ?tiin?ifica, Familia, Floare-albastra, Curierul literar, Samanatorul, Convorbiri Literare, Luceafarul and Via?a Româneasca, and using the pen names S.
- Voinea, C.
- Rasvan, S.
- Dancu, Cheptea, Stan Pârjol and Miron Aldea.
- He wrote a number of valued scientific texts about wheat; his prose fiction deals especially with rural subjects and attempts to reveal the depth and diversity of the peasant soul.
- Representative works include Drum ?i popas (1904), ĂŽn urma plugului (1905) and Pe drumul Baraganului (1908), collections of tales and short stories; and the novels Doua neamuri (1906) and Pe Margineanca (1912), which feature bitter conflicts between social classes, resolved in Samanatorist fashion.
- He translated works by Henrik Ibsen, Hermann Sudermann, Pierre Loti and Leonid Andreyev.
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