“after the figures he was hanging out to dry had been evicted from power”
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Tudor Arghezi
Tudor Arghezi was a Romanian writer and political figure, widely considered one of his country's greatest poets. An illegitimate, part-Hungarian child who was purposely vague about his roots, he had a troubled youth during which he held a variety of jobs—including a stint as a hierodeacon of the Romanian Orthodox Church, from which he gathered his extreme anti-clericalism. He debuted in the 1890s…
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culture · Romanian writer and political figure (1880–1967) · poet · writer · journalist · children's writer · also Tudor Arghezi, Ion Theo, Ion N. Theodorescu, Arghezi
Born 23 May 1880 · Died 14 July 1967 · Q435755
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2026· 1 entry
2002· 1 entry
By academic Florin Mihăilescu, the post-rehabilitation period initially came with "well-deserved eulogies", but these quickly degenerated into a cult of personality that matched Dej's own
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2000· 1 entry
Mitzura Arghezi and Traian Radu began putting out their own alternative corpus, vetted by the Academy; it ended in 2011 with a volume of his communist-era articles
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1995· 1 entry
A bust by Tudor Cataraga was inaugurated on the Moldovan Alley of Classics
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1978· 1 entry
Vladimir Ciocov had added an Arghezian selection in Serbo-Croatian
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1974· 2 entries
Baruțu Arghezi had obtained that the Romanian state pay for a bronze plaque, the work of sculptor Teodor Ionescu, which was mounted on Geneva's Rue des Pavillions; in 1994, on Gheorghe Tomozei's initiative, an Arghezi me
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Made frequent returns to Romania after 1989, publishing books of memoirs, travel notes, biographical material on Arghezi Sr; he died in 2010 in Arad, leaving another trove of his father's manuscripts, which were in the p
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1967· 1 entry
Died 1967-07-14.
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1966· 1 entry
Was with the priest Gheorghe Cunescu, to whom he confessed his regrets at having betrayed and mistreated his mother—whom he still did not name (Rozalia, chased out of Mărțișor by Paraschiva, had died alone in July 1944)
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1965· 3 entries
Awarded Herder Prize (1965).
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Awarded Hero of Socialist Labour of Romania (1965).
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When Arghezi was granted the Herder Prize, personally handed in Vienna by philologist Albin Lesky; also then, he joined the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
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1964· 1 entry
Swedish translator Arne Häggqvist, who believed that Arghezi had already reached an international audience, proposed him for the Nobel Prize in Literature
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1962· 1 entry
Had returned to Geneva for medical treatment, but in April was feted with a recital broadcast on Radio Romania, with Mihai Ralea as a guest speaker
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1961· 1 entry
When selections of his verse appeared in Spanish (by Rafael Alberti and María Teresa León) and German (by Alfred Margul-Sperber, who was preceded in this effort by Oskar Pastior)
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1960· 2 entries
Awarded Star of the Socialist Republic of Romania, 2nd class (1960).
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By Cornel Medrea, was installed on permanent public display at Craiova
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1959· 1 entry
Constantin Kirițescu was allowed to publish his treatise on Romanian contributions during World War I, but did not mention Arghezi's history as a collaborationist
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1957· 1 entry
Eugen Barbu was the first novelist to embrace Arghezian aesthetics
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1955· 2 entries
Reported that he actually owed his improvement to Bagdasar's methods, despite his misdiagnosis
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Arghezi was visited at Mărțișor by Deputy Premier Iosif Chișinevschi, who, upon arriving late, was told not to worry: "I've been waiting for you people these past ten years"
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1953· 1 entry
When a few of his poems were hosted in the communized Viața Romînească; also then, he prepared translations of Anatole France's Bloom of Life and La Fontaine's Fables
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1950· 1 entry
At a labor camp on the Danube–Black Sea Canal
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1945· 1 entry
Described him as an "impostor" and a "deceitful comrade") to the anti-communist Virgil Ierunca (who called him a "great prostitute")
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1944· 1 entry
Resumed publication of Bilete de Papagal; this period inaugurated his ambiguous relationship with the Romanian Communist Party, alternating polite cohabitation and outspoken independence
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1943· 1 entry
Published a satirical piece targeting Germany's envoy, Manfred von Killinger; though this text was likely vetted by some members of the governing apparatus, he was briefly interned at Târgu Jiu, and as such obtained c
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1941· 1 entry
By Revista Fundațiilor Regale, was sometimes read as regime-friendly and anti-Soviet messaging on the Bessarabian question, but may also be, in an entirely opposite reading, about the Nazi hold on Romania
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1940· 1 entry
Which also witnessed Baruțu's own beginnings as a typographer and writer, Arghezi Sr was a prominent participant in Carol's personality cult, with encomia that spoke of his having descended from the skies to rescue his p
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1939· 3 entries
The Jewish iron magnate Max Auschnitt had offered to sponsor him in writing against the rising wave of antisemitism, but that he would not oblige, since it would have conditioned him to become Auschnitt's "lackey"
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Arghezi was somewhat critical of the FRN
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Stated his comeback as a poet with a selection of Hore (the plural of hora)
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1936· 1 entry
Successfully blocked Lovinescu's induction by the Romanian Academy, in what he believed would be a message sent to Arghezi and the other modernists
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1934· 1 entry
Cărticică de seară ("Evening Booklet") in 1935
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1930· 2 entries
While more poetry came as Flori de mucigai ("Mildew Flowers", 1931), alongside the children's book Cartea cu jucării ("Book of Toys"); he then printed two other novels—Tablete din Țara de Kuty ("Tabloids from the Land of
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The increasingly right-wing Nichifor Crainic published in Gândirea a piece that reminded Romanians of Arghezi's "desertion to the enemy", suggesting that his moral sickness was directed against "anything that's holy"
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1928· 1 entry
Ionesco turned against his mentor in the 1934 essay, Nu, mocking Arghezian poetry as melodramatic and superficial
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1924· 1 entry
And then to a son, Iosif "Baruțu", in 1925
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1923· 1 entry
Single-handedly put out Națiunea newspaper, for which he penned his recollections of life at Cernica
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1921· 1 entry
Arghezi agitated for the release of a Socialist Party activist, who had been arrested during a workers' strike
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1907· 2 entries
Dedicated, and named after, the peasants' revolt of 50 years prior
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(his topical correspondence with the radicalized Cocea and Galaction was reportedly censored by Swiss authorities)
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1905· 1 entry
Spending his time in a convent of the Cordeliers, though he still wrote home to inquire about Eliazar
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1904· 1 entry
And she then left for Paris, giving birth to their son Eliazar Theodorescu, the future photographer and director "Eli Lotar"
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1902· 1 entry
And Arghezi could continue to spend his father's money, including on a Harley-Davidson motorcycle
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1894· 1 entry
Originally to spite a colleague who had also taken up this occupation
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1880· 1 entry
Born 1880-05-23.
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