Duiliu Zamfirescu

Duiliu Zamfirescu
Born(1858-10-30)30 October 1858
Dumbrăveni, Vrancea County
Died3 June 1922(1922-06-03) (aged 63)
Agapia, Neamț County
Resting placeFocșani cemetery
Pen nameDon Padil
Occupationnovelist, poet, short story writer, journalist, memoirist, politician, diplomat, lawyer, schoolteacher
Alma materUniversity of Bucharest
Period1877–1920
Genrefiction, lyric poetry, autobiography
Literary movementNeoclassicism, Parnassianism, Realism, Romanticism, Literatorul, Junimea
55th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania
In office
13 March 1920 – 12 June 1920
Prime MinisterAlexandru Averescu
Preceded byAlexandru Vaida-Voevod
Succeeded byTake Ionescu
34th President of the Assembly of Deputies
In office
30 June 1920 – 22 January 1922
MonarchFerdinand I
Preceded byNicolae Iorga
Succeeded byMihail Orleanu
Personal details
Political partyPeople's Party
Spouse
Henrietta Allievi
(died 1920)

Duiliu Zamfirescu (30 October 1858 – 3 June 1922) was a Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist. In 1909, he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy, and, for a while in 1920, he was Foreign Minister of Romania. Zamfirescu is best remembered for his Comăneștenilor literary cycle, comprising his novels Viața la țară, Tănase Scatiu, În război, Îndreptări, and Anna.


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