Iacob Negruzzi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Iacob Negruzzi

Moldavian-born Romanian poet and prose writer

Date of Birth: 31-Dec-1842

Place of Birth: Iași, Iași County, Romania

Date of Death: 06-Jan-1932

Profession: politician, translator, author, poet lawyer, university teacher, journalist, literary critic

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Iacob Negruzzi

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  • Negruzzi (December 31, 1842 – January 6, 1932) was a Moldavian, later Romanian poet and prose writer. Born in Ia?i, he was the son of Constantin Negruzzi and his wife Maria (née Gane).
  • Living in Berlin between 1853 and 1863, he attended high school, followed by the University of Berlin, from which he obtained a doctorate in 1863.
  • He was a professor at the University of Ia?i from 1864 to 1884, and at the University of Bucharest from 1885 until his retirement in 1897.
  • He was elected to the Assembly of Deputies in 1870, and later joined the Romanian Senate.
  • He was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1881, was later its general secretary, and served three terms as Academy president: 1893-1894, 1910-1913 and 1923-1926.
  • Negruzzi was among the founders of Junimea, and became its secretary in 1868.
  • He played a very significant role as editor of Convorbiri Literare, ensuring the magazine's regular appearance by investing an immense amount of energy and making significant sacrifices, including material ones.
  • He continued as editor for ten years after moving to Bucharest in 1885.
  • He wrote reviews and notes in Convorbiri; published selections from Copii de pe natura (which appeared in book form in 1874), as well as the novel Mihai Vereanu (which appeared in 1873); and initiated a column called "Coresponden?a", probably the country's first true letter to the editor section.His press debut came in 1866, with a one-act play that appeared in Foaia So?ieta?ii pentru Literatura ?i Cultura Româna în Bucovina; his first book was the 1872 Poezii.
  • Although written starting in 1889, Amintirile din "Junimea" was only published in 1921.
  • He translated several plays by Friedrich Schiller (The Robbers, Fiesco and Intrigue and Love appeared in book form in 1871; The Maid of Orleans in Convorbiri Literare in 1883; Don Carlos and Mary Stuart in the last of his six-volume complete works that came out between 1893 and 1897).
  • Other translations included Romantic poetry, both French (Victor Hugo) and German (Schiller and Heinrich Heine), published in Poezii.
  • His wife was Maria Rosetti.

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