Petre Strihan, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 27-May-1899
Place of Birth: Mizil, Prahova County, Romania
Date of Death: 25-Jul-1990
Profession: lawyer, poet
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Petre Strihan
- Petre Strihan (pen name of Petre Constantinescu; May 27, 1899–July 25, 1990) was a Romanian poet. Born in Mizil, his parents were Ion Constantinescu, a lawyer, and his wife Steliana (née Anastasiu).
- From 1910 to 1918, he attended high school in Ploie?ti and Buzau.
- He then studied law at the University of Bucharest from 1918 to 1921, during which time he worked as a copyist within his faculty.
- He earned a doctorate in 1925, and worked as an instructor (1928-1938), associate professor (1938-1942) and professor (1942-1947).
- From 1942 to 1944, under the regime of Ion Antonescu, he was a deputy state secretary.
- He was active as a lawyer from 1921 to 1945, at which point he was suspended as a result of the political changes that followed the King Michael Coup.
- Between 1956 and 1964, under the communist regime, he successively served as accountant at a worksite in Titu, tutor at a worker cooperative, ticket inspector at Zoo Baneasa, laborer at a chemical plant, archivist and machine operator at another cooperative.
- From 1964 to 1968, he was documentarian at Bucharest's Nicolae Iorga History Institute, rising to scientific researcher from 1968 to 1970.Strihan's first published work appeared in Flacara in 1922, while his first book was the 1929 Penumbre.
- Between 1922 and 1929, he formed part of the Sburatorul literary circle.
- During the interwar period, his writings appeared in Adevarul literar, Convorbiri Literare, Via?a literara, Universul literar and Slove.
- After 1964, he wrote for Luceafarul, Gazeta literara and România Literara.
- His late works, delicate and naive, appeared in Poezii (1968), Moara albastra (1978) and Lumini târzii (1984).
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