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About Matilda Cugler-Poni
- Matilda Cugler-Poni (April 2, 1851 – September 9, 1931) was a Romanian poet. Born in Ia?i, her parents were Carol von Cugler, an architect of Austrian origin, and his wife Matilda (née Hefner), of Czech origin.
- She had a careful education under the guidance of private tutors; this included extensive readings in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Romanian literature.
- She was the first woman who was actively involved in a literary circle in Romania, the prestigious Junimea.
- Her first published work was the poem "Unei tinere fete" ("To a Young Girl"), which appeared in 1867 in Convorbiri Literare, Junimea's journal, which went on to run her verses until 1893.
- She also submitted writings for Familia, Columna lui Traian, Albina, Tribuna and Via?a Româneasca.Cugler-Poni belonged to the first group of convorbirist poets, who authored sentimental verses.
- A representative work was the 1874 book Poezii.
- Together with Veronica Micle, she was a modest precursor of feminine lyricism.
- Romantic in the fashion of Heinrich Heine and Nikolaus Lenau, her poems speak of longing, abandonment and betrayal.
- She also authored naturalist short stories that dealt with suburban tramps, craftsmen or small merchants from a moralist viewpoint.
- In 1881, she published a two-act comedy, Un tutor.Her first husband was the philologist Vasile Burla; she later married chemist Petru Poni.
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