How to Pronounce Ioan S. Nenițescu
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Apr 11, 1854 Galați, Galați County, Romania Died on 23 Feb 1901 (aged 46)
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About Ioan S. Neniescu
- Ioan S.
- Neni?escu (April 11, 1854–February 23, 1901) was a Romanian poet and playwright. Born in Gala?i, his parents were ?tefan Vasiliu, a manual laborer, and his wife Elisabeta (née Zaharia).
- After completing the Alexandru Ioan I commercial school in his native town, he finished high school, passing the exit examination at Ia?i.
- He also audited courses at Ia?i University's literature faculty.
- Neni?escu attended an officers' school, volunteered in the Romanian War of Independence and was wounded at Grivitsa.
- He then studied at the philosophy faculty of Berlin University, taking a doctorate in 1887 at Leipzig University with a thesis on Baruch Spinoza.
- He worked as a schoolteacher and inspector in Bucharest.
- He traveled south of the Danube, a trip that resulted in an ample "ethnic and statistical study of the Aromanians" (De la românii din Turcia Europeana, 1895).
- He sat in the Assembly of Deputies for his native Covurlui County, and also served as prefect of Tulcea County in the Dobruja region.Neni?escu's first work appeared in the Gala?i newspaper Gardistul civic.
- A member of Junimea, he published numerous poems in its organ Convorbiri Literare.
- He also contributed to Albina, Amicul copiilor, Revista noua, Românul literar, ?ezatoarea and Ziarul presei.
- While in Bucharest from 1884 to 1888, he published ?ara noua magazine, mainly submitting articles on pedagogy, ethics and sociology.
- His first book was the 1880 poetry volume Flori de primavara, followed by ?oimii de la Razboieni (1882) and Pui de lei (1891).
- Of the plays he wrote, the only one he published was Radu de la Afuma?i (1897).
- In 1896, Neni?escu was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy.
- He died in Buzau.
- His son ?tefan also became a poet.
