Mihail Davidoglu

Born into a Jewish family in Hârlău, his parents were Mihail Davidoglu, a port worker, and his wife Clara (née Kochen).

Mihail attended the Israelite Community High School in Galați, graduating in 1929, and the literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Bucharest, which he completed in 1932.

[1] He was a Latin teacher (1932–1941), a bureaucrat within the Arts Ministry (1945–1948), president of the culture committee in Bucharest's Sector 1, and held various positions within the Romanian Writers' Union.

[1] Davidoglu's literary debut was the 1936 radio drama Marinarul smirniot; his first success was Omul din Ceatal, written in 1943 and staged in 1947.

[1] Davidoglu died on August 17, 1987;[1] he was survived by his poet wife Ecaterina Cavarnali-Davidoglu, whose first-ever volume was only printed in 1998, when she was aged 80.