Barbu Paris Mumuleanu (1794 – May 21, 1836) was a
Wallachian poet.
Born in
Slatina, his father was originally from a village and sold trinkets. Initially employed as a
logothete to the ''
vistier'' (treasurer),
Alexandru Piru
Alexandru Piru (August 22, 1917 – November 6, 1993) was a Romanian literary critic and historian.
Born in Mărgineni, Bacău County,Alex. Ștefănescu"Al. Piru", in ''România Literară'', nr. 10/2002 his parents were Vasile, a notary, an ...
, ''Istoria literaturii române: Epoca premodernă'', pp. 390-91. Bucharest: Editura didactică și pedagogică, 1970 he later moved to
Bucharest. Spending several years there, he worked in the home of ''
kaymakam''
Constantin Filipescu, who was a connoisseur of European poetry.
This is the origin of Mumuleanu's familiarity with the verses of
Alphonse de Lamartine,
Victor Hugo
Victor-Marie Hugo (; 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French Romantic writer and politician. During a literary career that spanned more than sixty years, he wrote in a variety of genres and forms. He is considered to be one of the great ...
and
Lord Byron. His reading material included
Anacreon,
Athanasios Christopoulos, the Bible,
Ioan Barac, the
Văcărescu family
The House of Văcărescu was a boyar family of Wallachia (now part of Romania).
According to tradition, it is one of the oldest noble families in Wallachia.
Notable members
* Enache Văcărescu (1654–1714) grand treasurer of Wallachia (killed ...
poets,
Costache Conachi,
Hesiod
Hesiod (; grc-gre, Ἡσίοδος ''Hēsíodos'') was an ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time as Homer. He is generally regarded by western authors as 'the first written poet i ...
,
Homer and
Ovid.
He knew Greek and probably some French.
Mumuleanu made his published debut with ''Rost de poezii adecă stihuri'', an 1820 book of poetry. Two others followed in 1825: ''Caracteruri'' and ''Plângerea și tânguirea Valahiei asupra nemulțemirii streinilor ce au derăpănat-o''. These were accompanied by prefaces that advocated a national culture. Aesthetically, his works combine classical forms with Romantic inspiration.
[Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. II, p. 153. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. ] Most of his poems are erotic and bacchic in the style of Anacreon; two exceptions are an ode for the opening of
Gheorghe Lazăr's school and a vaguely
Voltairean ode to mankind. He was married and had at least three children; at the time of his death, Mumuleanu lived in Bucharest's Batiște district.
Notes
{{DEFAULTSORT:Mumuleanu, Barbu Paris
1794 births
1836 deaths
People from Slatina, Romania
Romanian poets