Artur Stavri (November 10, 1869 – May 10, 1928) was a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

n poet. Born in Botoșani, he studied at the National College in Iași and, from 1888, at the law faculty of

Iași University The Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (Romanian: ''Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza"''; acronym: UAIC) is a public university located in Iași, Romania. Founded by an 1860 decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza, under whom the former Academia Mi ...

. Active within the National Liberal Party, he served as

prefect Prefect (from the Latin ''praefectus'', substantive adjectival form of ''praeficere'': "put in front", meaning in charge) is a magisterial title of varying definition, but essentially refers to the leader of an administrative area. A prefect's ...

. Stavri wrote for numerous publications of various political orientations, including '' Adevărul'', ''

Contemporanul ''Contemporanul'' (The Contemporary) is a Romanian literary magazine published in Iaşi, Romania from 1881 to 1891. It was sponsored by the socialist circle of the city. A new magazine ''Contimporanul ''Contimporanul'' (antiquated spelling of ...

'', ''

Convorbiri Literare ''Convorbiri Literare'' ( Romanian: ''Literary Talks'') is a Romanian literary magazine published in Romania. It is among the most important journals of the nineteenth-century Romania. History and profile ''Convorbiri Literare'' was founded by ...

'', ''Lumea ilustrată'', ''Noua revistă română'', ''Povestea vorbei'', ''Revista nouă'', ''

România Literară ''România Literară'' is a cultural and literary magazine from Romania. In its original edition, it was founded on 1 January 1855 by Vasile Alecsandri and published in Iași until 3 December 1855, when it was suppressed. The new series appeared o ...

'', ''

Sămănătorul ''Sămănătorul'' or ''Semănătorul'' (, Romanian for "The Sower") was a literary and political magazine published in Romania between 1901 and 1910. Founded by poets Alexandru Vlahuță and George Coșbuc, it is primarily remembered as a tribune ...

'', ''Vatra'' and ''Vieața''. His pen names were Astar, A star, Coresi, A. Coresi and Sfâriac. He was an editor at

Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea Constantin Dobrogeanu-Gherea (born Solomon Katz; 1855, village of Slavyanka near Yekaterinoslav (modern Dnipro), then in Imperial Russia – 1920, Bucharest) was a Romanian Marxist theorist, politician, sociologist, literary critic, and j ...

's ''Literatură și știință'' magazine, responsible for the literary section. Together with

Ion Gorun Ion Gorun (pen name of Alexandru I. Hodoș; December 30, 1863–March 30, 1928) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian prose writer, poet and translator. Biography Born in Roșia, Sibiu County, his parents were Iosif Hodoș and his wif ...

, he published ''Pagini literare'' in 1899. He was a regular participant in

Nicolae Beldiceanu Nicolae Beldiceanu (; 26 October 1844 in Preutești - 2 February 1896 in Iași) was a Romanian poet and novelist A novelist is an author or writer of novels, though often novelists also write in other genres of both fiction and non-fiction. ...

's literary circle, together with

Dimitrie Anghel Dimitrie Anghel (; July 16, 1872 – November 13, 1914) was a Romanian poet. Anghel was of Aromanian descent from his father. His first poem was published in ''Contemporanul'' (1890). His debut editorial ''Traduceri din Paul Verlaine'' was publi ...

and

Arthur Gorovei Arthur Gorovei (born 19 February 1864, Fălticeni – d. 19 March 1951, Bucharest) was a Romanian writer, folklorist and ethnographer Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthro ...

. His books were ''Poesii. 1888-1894'' (1894), ''De demult'' (poems, 1897), ''Pe-același drum'' (1900), ''Câteva clipe'' (poems, 1904) and ''Luminișuri'' (1910).Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 610. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Stavri, Artur 1869 births 1928 deaths People from Botoșani Alexandru Ioan Cuza University alumni National Liberal Party (Romania) politicians Prefects of Romania Romanian poets Romanian magazine editors