Ion Barbu

Dan Barbilian, who signed his verse Ion Barbu, was born in March 1895 at Câmpulung Muscel. A mathematics student in Bucharest from 1914, he made his debut in poetry in 1918 in Literatorul, the review of Alexandru Macedonski, then joined the Sburătorul circle, where Eugen Lovinescu presented him as a new poet. He studied at Göttingen in the early twenties, defended in 1929 in Bucharest a doctorate supervised by Gheorghe Țițeica and taught algebra at the university of that city; after 1930, science became his main activity. He died in Bucharest on 11 August 1961.

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• PoetryJoc secundIon Barbu · 1930not translated into EnglishLiterature