Valeriu Marcu (; 8 March 1899 in

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– 4 July 1942 in

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) was a

n poet, writer and historian. He wrote the first biography of

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. In his younger years, Marcu was acquainted with both Lenin and

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. During his years in Berlin, Marcu became acquainted with (among other avant-garde literary figures at the time) the Austrian playwright

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and the German author Ernst Jünger, who would remain a lifelong correspondent. He also gave the eulogy at fellow communist Paul Levi's funeral in 1930. Marcu, who was Jewish, migrated from Germany to Austria, and then to France, where he and his wife Eva settled in

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in 1933. In 1940 Varian Fry helped the family get papers to leave France.Sheila Isenberg, ''A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry'', iUniverse, 2005, pp. 158-60.

Works

* ''Lenin: 30 Jahre Russland'', 1927. Translated by E. W. Dickes as
Lenin
'. New York: Macmillan Co., 1928. * ''Männer und Mächte der Gegenwart'', 1930. Translated by

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and

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as
Men and Forces of Our Time
', 1931 *
The Birth of the Nations, From the Unity of Faith to the Democracy of Money
', 1932.

References

External links

* 1899 births 1942 deaths 20th-century Romanian historians 20th-century Romanian poets Romanian male poets Romanian biographers Male biographers 20th-century Romanian male writers {{Romania-writer-stub