Constantin D. Aricescu

Constantin D. Aricescu (18 March 1823 –18 February 1886) was a Romanian poet, prose writer, playwright and revolutionary.

His early education took place at home with private tutors and at the Greek and Romanian schools in his native town.

His contributions appeared in Foaie pentru minte, inimă și literatură, Pruncul român, Românul, Zimbrul, Trompeta Carpaților, and Pressa.

A participant in the Wallachian Revolution of 1848 at Câmpulung, he was a fervent supporter of the union of Wallachia and Moldavia, secretary of the local Unionist Committee and a deputy in the 1857 ad-hoc Divan.

Aricescu's prose work is more interesting, especially his historical writings (particularly the 1874 Istoria revoluțiunei române de la 1821) and his memoir pieces, sometimes naive and emphatic, but written with vigor and in places showing a genuine aptitude for pamphleteering.