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    George Coșbuc was a Romanian poet and teacher born in 1866. He came from a long line of Greek Catholic priests and attended school in his village, where he excelled as a student. He began teaching at a young age and publishing his poetry in 1884. Coșbuc went on to study at the University of Cluj while collecting and publishing folk stories. He became editor of a Romanian newspaper and published his first masterpiece, gaining popularity in Romanian literary circles. In the 1890s, Coșbuc published several volumes of poetry that cemented his reputation as a leading Romanian poet and translator.

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    George Coșbuc was a Romanian poet and teacher born in 1866. He came from a long line of Greek Catholic priests and attended school in his village, where he excelled as a student. He began teaching at a young age and publishing his poetry in 1884. Coșbuc went on to study at the University of Cluj while collecting and publishing folk stories. He became editor of a Romanian newspaper and published his first masterpiece, gaining popularity in Romanian literary circles. In the 1890s, Coșbuc published several volumes of poetry that cemented his reputation as a leading Romanian poet and translator.

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    George Coșbuc

    Early life[edit]
    His father Sebastian Coșbuc, a Greek Catholic priest looked up to by his parish, drew from a line
    reputed to have yielded fourteen consecutive generations of priests. George attended primary
    school and graduated to secondary classes in the neighboring village of Telcs (now: Telciu). He
    happily took to the scholarly bent encouraged by his father, earning the praise of instructors and
    being chosen among the few who were to sign up for advanced courses at Liceul
    Românesc (Romanian Lyceum), a higher learning academy in the town of Naszód (now: Năsăud).
    He soon found himself doubling as teacher.
    He began tearing through the library of the institution, impressing colleagues with his encyclopedic
    inclinations, and joined a local literary club, the Virtus Romana Rediviva, an association his father
    frowned upon as a deviation for a prospective career as clergyman. In 1884, already a well-loved
    teacher at the age of 24, he published his very first poems in the yearly almanac of the literary club.

    First works[edit]
    Coşbuc began attending courses at the University of Cluj-Napoca in 1884, while collecting fairy tales
    and popular stories, which he rewrote and published to local success. He became so popular that
    three years later, he was asked to become editor in chief of the main Kolozsvár Romanian
    newspaper, Tribuna.
    He soon published what widely became known as his first masterpiece, Nunta Zamfirei ("Zamfira's
    Wedding") to enthusiastic praise in Romanian literary circles. He moved to Romania, Bucharest, the
    capital, and the center of cultural discourse. His contributes to the periodical Convorbiri Literare to
    consistent acclaim. In collaboration with other former educators, he pieced together a
    praised Romanian language textbook: Carte românească de citire (the "Romanian Book of
    Reading").

    1890s[edit]

    George Coșbuc on a 2014 Romanian stamp

    In 1893, he published Balade și idile ("Ballads and Pastorals") a volume which cemented his


    reputation. He began dabbling in poetry with political subtext, penning the emphatic Noi vrem
    pământ ("We Demand Land"), Lupta vieții ("Life's struggle"), and overviewes the debut of yet another
    literary magazine, Vatra. In 1895, he married Elena Sfetea.
    He completed the first Romanian translation of Virgil's Aeneid in 1896, and also published a
    collection of various poems and short stories, Versuri și proză ("Verses and Prose"). His output as a
    translator is astonishing: within the span of three years, he published large portions
    of Kalidassa's Sanskrit Abhignānashākuntala (a part of them through German translations), and a
    new Romanian translation of Homer's Odyssey. Coşbuc also undertook the translation of various
    works by Friedrich Schiller. The Romanian Academy deemed him an "outstanding member" in 1898.
    He further contributed to literature by completing, a decade later, the epic effort of translating Dante
    Aligheri's Divine Comedy in its entirety.

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