Dan Petrașincu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dan Petrașincu

Romanian-Italian writer

Date of Birth: 02-Jun-1910

Place of Birth: Odessa, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001

Profession: writer, translator, anthropologist

Nationality: Italy, Romania

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Dan Petra?incu (Romanian pronunciation: ['dan petra'?i?ku]; born Angelo Moretta; Italian: ['and?elo mo'r?tta]; , 2 June 1910 – 1997) was an Italian-Romanian anthropologist, writer and translator. He was born in Odessa from an Italian father and a Romanian mother.
In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, when he was ten years old, the family fled to Romania, where he went to high school in Râmnicu Sarat and Bucharest. He worked as a copy-editor for "Rampa”, "Adevarul”, "Reporter”, "Lumea româneasca”, "România literara”. Together with Mihai ?erban and Ieronim Sârbu he published the magazine "Discobolul" (1932-1933). He translated from Victor Hugo, Gaston Baty, Wanda Wasilewska, etc. After 1950 he lived in Italy, and died in Rome in 1997.