Alexandru A. Philippide

He studied law, literature, philosophy and political economy at the University of Iași, of Berlin and of Paris.

Thus, his decision to enter an artistic strike after the onset of the Communist regime passed unnoticed.

During this period, he translated or improved texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Voltaire, William Shakespeare, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Rabindranath Tagore and many others.

Once the socialist realist phase had passed, he began writing poetry again.

Initially called Pia Brătianu, it was renamed after Olga Bancic under communism and given Philippide's name following the Romanian Revolution.