Pan M. Vizirescu

Born in Braneț, Olt County, his parents Marin Vizirescu and Maria (née Pietreanu) were agricultural laborers, while his brother Sm.

In 1938, Vizirescu obtained a doctorate from the same institution; the adviser on his thesis, which dealt with characteristic national poetry, was Constantin Rădulescu-Motru.

Attorney General Vasile Manea Drăgulin presented the convictions decided upon in 1945 as illegal, believing the interpretation of the evidence to have been “retroactive, truncated, and tendentious”, therefore amounting to a “conviction decision, whose content is a synthesis of vehement criticism of their activity, to which we forcefully ascribed the character of war crimes”.

[1] Vizirescu's contributions appeared in Facla, Secolul (Craiova), Bilete de Papagal, Revista Fundațiilor Regale, Țara noastră, Viața literară, Familia, Gândirea, Universul, Curentul and Porunca vremii.

His first published work, the sketch "Sfârșit duios", ran in Universul literar in 1922 and was signed with the pen name Dela Bârsa.

He published volumes of poetry (Poeme, 1982; Sunet peste culmi, 1985; Călătorie de taină, 1988; Mi se oprise timpul, 1995; Prins de lumină și har, 1995; Tărâmul însingurării mele, 2002; Orizonturi lirice, 2003; Armonii, 2003), essays (Coloane care cresc necontenit, 1999) and theater (Liga oamenilor cinstiți, 1997).