Victor Vlad Delamarina (; August 31, 1870 – ) was an

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-born

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n poet. Born in Satu Mic (today called Victor Vlad Delamarina) near Lugoj in the

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, he attended primary school taught in Hungarian and

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, followed by gymnasium in Lugoj. Moving to the Romanian Old Kingdom, he went to Saint Sava National College in

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, to the military high schools in

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and Iaşi, and to the Higher Military School in Bucharest for two years, becoming a

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in the Romanian Naval Forces. Commissioned to the brig ''

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'', during the summer of 1891 he sailed on the Constanţa-

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- Constanţa route. He chronicled the journey in ''Călătoria bricului'' Mircea ("The Voyage of the Brig ''Mircea''"), published later that year. He also participated in tours on the protected cruiser NMS ''Elisabeta'' on the

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, the

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and the

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. Delamarina began writing as a schoolboy. Travel recollections of his appeared in '' Familia'' in 1893, and the following year, Valeriu Branişte published his poems in the Timișoara journal ''Dreptatea''. By virtue of these poems' being written in the Banat subdialect of Romanian, Delamarina introduced a new trend in Romanian poetry: the use of written subdialect. A number of literary historians underlined the importance of his contribution, including

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, Ilarie Chendi, I. D. Suciu, Gabriel Țepelea, George Muntean, Al. Bistrițeanu and Virgil Vintilescu. The latter published a study of his life and work in 1967. He died in 1896, aged 25, in Petroasa Mare village near his birthplace, and was buried in Lugoj.Turcuș, p.139

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References

* Aurel Turcuș (ed.)
''Poezie în grai bănăţean''
vol. I. Editura Orizonturi Universitare, Timișoara, 2009, {{DEFAULTSORT:Delamarina, Victor Vlad 1870 births 1896 deaths People from Timiș County Romanian Austro-Hungarians Romanian Naval Forces officers Romanian poets Romanian male poets Romanian travel writers 19th-century poets 19th-century male writers 19th-century Romanian military personnel Poets from Austria-Hungary