Maria Cunțan

Born in Sibiu, her father Dimitrie, originally from Dobârca, was a Romanian Orthodox priest, composer and professor of liturgical music and Typicon at the city's seminary.

[1] She attended primary school and the foreign languages institute in her native city,[2] making her debut in Tribuna in 1891.

[1] In this period, she was devoted to the early work of George Coșbuc, holding literary and musical soirées at her home where she would read his poems.

She continued publishing for some years after the war, but eventually stopped, living out her days in the sunless room of an almshouse.

[6] During her life and in the decades that followed, critical opinion of her work was divided, with Chendi, Iorga, Sextil Pușcariu, Titu Maiorescu, Garabet Ibrăileanu and Radu Gyr viewing it with varying degrees of favorability, while George Călinescu and Eugen Lovinescu tended to be dismissive.