Nicolae M. Condiescu

Born in Craiova, his parents were Matei Condiescu, an officer in the Romanian Army, and his wife Maria (née Panu).

In 1916, he became a major, rising to lieutenant colonel in 1917; during World War I, he was part of the general staff.

A professor at the Higher War School, he resigned from the army in 1926, and in 1933 was made a brigadier-general in the reserves.

[3] He wrote a travel book, Peste mări și țări (vol.

II, 1923), after which he gained a reputation as a novelist with Conu Enake (1928) and Însemnările lui Safirim (1936).