Alexandru Cazaban

Born in Iași to François Cazaban, who was of French origin, he graduated from the city's National College in 1895, following which he entered an architecture school that he did not complete.

He worked by turns as a proofreader at Românul, a rural schoolteacher, a draftsman, a veterinarian and a civil servant at the bridge and highway agency, before re-entering the newspaper business with the support of Alexandru Vlahuță and Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea.

His own publishing debut involved satirical sketches that appeared in Anton Bacalbașa's Moș Teacă.

[1] Cazaban contributed short prose for the second series of Ion Luca Caragiale's Moftul român, as well as for Zeflemeaua, Revista literară, Flacăra, Viața Românească, Luceafărul, Universul and Adevărul.

He wrote short stories, sketches and tales published in volumes that included Deștept băiat!