Nicolae Beldiceanu (; 26 October 1844 in

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- 2 February 1896 in

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) was a

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. Beldiceanu was the first person to write about the discoveries made at the Cucuteni archaeological site near the town of

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, Romania. He had helped four other scholars from Iași with the excavation of this site in 1885, and published an article entitled: ''Antichitățile de la Cucuteni'' (Antiquities of Cucuteni) the same year. This site was the first discovery of what would later become known as the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture. His son Nicolae N. Beldiceanu was also a noted poet and writer.

Selected published works

* ''Tala''. Nuvelă contimporană, Iași, 1882 * ''Antichitățile de la Cucuteni'' article in the journal: Schiţă arheologică, 1885 * ''Elemente de istoria românilor'', I-III, Iaşi, 1893-1894 * ''Poezii'', Iași, 1893 * ''Doine'', Iași, 1893 * ''Poezii'', Bucharest, 1914

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* ''Dicționarul literaturii române de la origini până la 1900'', Bucharest, 1979 * ''Dicționarul scriitorilor români'', coordonat de Mircea Zaciu, Marian Papahagi, Aurel Sasu, A-C, Bucharest, 1995 1844 births 1896 deaths People from Suceava County Romanian poets Romanian male poets Burials at Eternitatea cemetery 19th-century poets 19th-century male writers {{romania-writer-stub

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