Constantin Sandu-Aldea

Born in Tichilești, Brăila County, his parents were the cart driver Sandu Petrea Pârjol and his wife Tudora.

He did not find a job in the field, but instead worked as an estate administrator at Crivina, Prahova County; a fisheries agent; a Căile Ferate Române clerk and an editor and proofreader for Floare-albastră, Epoca, România jună and Apărarea națională magazines.

Between 1901 and 1907, he took advanced courses at the École nationale supérieure d'horticulture in Versailles; he studied at the Agricultural University of Berlin from 1904 and earned a doctorate in 1906.

[2] Sandu-Aldea made his literary debut with poems in Vieața (1896), also writing for Lumea nouă literară și științifică, Familia, Floare-albastră, Curierul literar, Sămănătorul, Convorbiri Literare, Luceafărul and Viața Românească, and using the pen names S. Voinea, C. Răsvan, S. Dancu, Cheptea, Stan Pârjol and Miron Aldea.

He wrote a number of valued scientific texts about wheat; his prose fiction deals especially with rural subjects and attempts to reveal the depth and diversity of the peasant soul.