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Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea

Died in 1918

Barbu Ștefănescu Delavrancea was born in Bucharest in April 1858, on the 11th according to Adevărul, in the suburb of Delea Nouă, the son of a carter from Vrancea; in 1884 he took the pen name Delavrancea. He studied law in Bucharest, specialised in Paris without taking a doctorate, and became a lawyer: he defended Caragiale, who was accused of plagiarism. Mayor of Bucharest from 1899 to 1901 and Minister of Public Works from 1910 to 1912, he entered the Romanian Academy in 1912 and died in Iași on 29 April 1918.

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