Artur Enășescu (pen name of Artur A. Enăcescu; January 19 (or 12), 1889 – December 4, 1942) was a

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n poet. Born in

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, his parents were Alexandru Enăcescu, a Post, Telegraph, Telephone (PTT) employee, and his wife Olga (''née'' Nacu). He began school in his native town in 1896 and entered A. T. Laurian High School, which he attended from 1900 to 1903. He then transferred to the

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, where he studied from 1904 to 1905, but only obtained a degree at Botoșani in 1913 or 1914. For a time, it was believed that he audited university courses in Paris in 1911 and 1912, but he in fact worked as a clerk in Botoșani during this period, except for a brief stay in

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in the summer of 1912. His first published work was "Amor", a sonnet that appeared in ''Convorbiri critice'' in 1910. Other magazines that featured his verses include ''

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'', ''Moldova'', ''Rampa'', ''Epoca'', ''Convorbiri literare'', ''Vremuri nouă'', ''Solia'', ''Îndrumarea'', ''Junimea Moldovei de Nord'', '' Luceafărul'', ''Cuvântul liber'', ''Universul liber'', '' Familia'', ''Propilee literare'' and ''Ideea literară''. Drafted into the

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when his country entered World War I in 1916, Enășescu saw action at

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and Măgura Cașinului. He was an editor for the Botoșani-based ''Îndrumarea'' in 1918 and for the

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''Luceafărul'' in 1919–1920. Due to an illness, he stayed in a sanatorium at

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from 1920 to 1922. His only book published during his lifetime was the 1920 ''Pe gânduri'', which appeared thanks to the effort of his friends. From 1928, the disease of his nervous system became irreversible. In the 1930s, with his lost mind, he was a vagabond, sleeping in passageways or under the staircase of the Ferdinand Hotel. He cut a tragic and colorful figure in the landscape of downtown Bucharest, as recorded by artists

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and Aurel Jiquidi.Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', vol. I, p. 565. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

Bibliography

*''Pe gânduri'', Bucharest, 1920 *''Revolta zeului'', Bucharest, 1946 *''Poezii'', Bucharest, 1968

Notes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Enasescu, Artur 1889 births 1942 deaths People from Botoșani Romanian male poets Sonneteers Romanian magazine editors Romanian military personnel of World War I 20th-century Romanian poets A. T. Laurian National College alumni