Corneliu Moldovanu

Born in Bârlad, his parents were Dumitrache Vasiliu, a merchant, and his wife Ruxandra (née Rășcanu).

Starting that year, he was a secretary at the Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Arts, rising to associate professor in 1911.

In 1917 at Iași, Romania's temporary World War I capital, he published Românul newspaper, together with Mihail Sadoveanu, Octavian Goga, Mihail Sorbul, Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea and Ion Minulescu.

Publications that ran his work include Epoca literară, Evenimentul literar, Revista modernă, Artă și literatură română, Noua revistă română, Convorbiri critice, Rampa, Flacăra, Universul, Sămănătorul and Luceafărul.

He wrote the two-volume 1922 novel Purgatoriul, and translated works by Guy de Maupassant and Pierre Corneille.