Leonid Corneanu

Leonid Corneanu, born Leonid Cornfeld on 1 January 1909 in Coșnița, on the left bank of the Dniester, into a Jewish family, studied in Tiraspol and then at the literary institute of Kharkov, which he left in 1932. From 1936 he worked at the scientific institute of the Moldavian autonomous republic and wrote, with Samuil Lehtțir, textbooks that included Eminescu, Coșbuc and Alecsandri, for which the two men were accused of Romanophilia. He died in Chișinău on 26 November 1957.

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• PoetryTiraspolulLeonid Corneanu · 1932not translated into EnglishLiterature