Vasile Voiculescu (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile vojkuˈlesku],
literary pseudonym V. Voiculescu; 27 November 1884 â€" 26 April 1963)
was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and
physician.Voiculescu was born in Pârscov, Buzău County, Romania, to
a family of wealthy peasants. He attended primary school in Pleșcoi,
a village near his home, for a year, after which he was sent to a
boarding school in Buzău. He attended high school in Buzău, then in
Bucharest â€" the Gheorghe Lazăr High School, where he befriended
George Ciprian, an aspiring actor at that time, and the young writer
Urmuz.Upon graduating high school in 1902, he read philosophy for a
year at the University of Bucharest before starting his medical
studies at the Faculty of Medicine. He became a doctor of medicine in
1910.March 1912 marked Voiculescu's debut as a poet with Dor
("Longing"), a poem first published in Convorbiri Literare. He managed
to publish a volume of poems in 1916, but the German Empire forces
occupying Bucharest (see Romanian Campaign (World War I)) destroyed
all copies. In 1918, he published the volume Din țara zimbrului
("From the Land of the Wisent").
literary pseudonym V. Voiculescu; 27 November 1884 â€" 26 April 1963)
was a Romanian poet, short-story writer, playwright, and
physician.Voiculescu was born in Pârscov, Buzău County, Romania, to
a family of wealthy peasants. He attended primary school in Pleșcoi,
a village near his home, for a year, after which he was sent to a
boarding school in Buzău. He attended high school in Buzău, then in
Bucharest â€" the Gheorghe Lazăr High School, where he befriended
George Ciprian, an aspiring actor at that time, and the young writer
Urmuz.Upon graduating high school in 1902, he read philosophy for a
year at the University of Bucharest before starting his medical
studies at the Faculty of Medicine. He became a doctor of medicine in
1910.March 1912 marked Voiculescu's debut as a poet with Dor
("Longing"), a poem first published in Convorbiri Literare. He managed
to publish a volume of poems in 1916, but the German Empire forces
occupying Bucharest (see Romanian Campaign (World War I)) destroyed
all copies. In 1918, he published the volume Din țara zimbrului
("From the Land of the Wisent").
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