Language Romanian Role Poet Name Alecu Donici | Notable works Fabule ("Fables") Ethnicity Romanian | |
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Born January 19, 1806
Donici, Orhei ( 1806-01-19 ) Occupation Civil servant in Chisinau Alma mater Saint Petersburg Military Academy Spouse Maria Rosetti-Balanescu
(her death)
Profira Krupenski Died January 21, 1865, Piatra Neamt, Romania | ||
„Doi cîini”-Alecu Donici-fabulă Babinciuc Georgia-10 ani.
Alecu (or Alexandru) Donici ([aˈleku (alekˈsandru) ˈdonit͡ʃʲ]; January 19, 1806 near Donici, Orhei - January 21, 1865, Piatra Neamț) was a Moldavian, later Romanian poet and translator.
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Biography
He was the first of four children of Dimitrie Donici and wife Ileana Lambrino. He studied at the Saint Petersburg Military Academy, and became a junior lieutenant in the Russian army. He was of boyar origin. Aleksandr Pushkin lived in the Donici family house during his exile in 1820-1823. After 1828, Donici assumed the duties of a civil servant in Chişinău, but later on he chose to resign and in 1835 settled in Iași, where most of his literary career unfolded. His chief work, a two-volume book of fables titled Fabule ("Fables"), was published in Iaşi in 1840; it shows the strong influence of Ivan Krylov.
He translated the works of Aleksandr Pushkin and Antioch Kantemir.