Nestor Urechia, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Romanian prose writer
Date of Birth: 10-May-1866
Place of Birth: Bucharest
Date of Death: 09-Apr-1931
Profession: editor
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Nestor Urechia
- Nestor Urechia (May 1, 1866–April 9, 1931) was a Romanian prose writer. Born in Bucharest, his parents were historian and writer V.
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- Urechia and his wife Luiza (née Wirth-Pester).
- From 1874 to 1885, he attended primary and high school at a private institute.
- Then, from 1886 to 1897, he went to École Polytechnique and École des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris.
- In 1897, he became a professor at the National School for Bridges and Roads in Bucharest.
- His first published work was the short story "Moartea lui P.", which appeared in Literatorul in 1882.
- From 1898 to 1916, he was in charge of the Câmpina-Predeal national highway.
- From 1917 to 1920, he was a director in the Public Works Ministry.
- From 1920 to 1929, he headed the school for public works directors.Urechia's published books include Conferin?e (1901); Un proiect de geografie sociala a României (1902), where he planned out sociological research; Zânele din Valea Cerbului.
- Pove?ti pentru copii (1904), reprinted in sixteen editions through 1987; Dans les Carpathes roumaines, Paris (1906), the French version of what later appeared as ĂŽn Bucegi (1907); and the monograph Drumul Bra?ovului (1913).
- His contributions appeared in Revista noua, Via?a literara ?i artistica, România viitoare, La Roumanie, Printre hotare and La Politique.
- Fermecatoarea natura, an anthology, appeared in 1924.
- He was chief editing secretary of Propilee literare magazine from 1926 to 1930, where he used the pen names Ortens, N.
- Pan, Ortens Anineanu, Bucegicus, N.
- Jnepeanu, Stroie Miclescu and Nestor for travel accounts and sketches on the history of tourism.Urechia belonged to the tourists' society, the wanderers' inn and the Romanian touring club.
- He was a tireless traveler, for whom the "poetry of the horizons" was a remedy for pain and sadness, and was among the precursors of Romanian tourism literature.
- His 1916 book Robinsonii Bucegilor won a prize from the Romanian Academy.
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