Constantin T. Stoika was a Romanian poet and prose writer
Education
Born in Buzău to journalist Titus Stoika and his wife Irena (née Ciorogârleanu), he attended primary school in Piatra Neamț and in the then-Austro-Hungarian Brașov. He also began at a gymnasium there, and completed this stage of his schooling at Buzău and Slatina. This was followed by high school in Pitești and the literature and philosophy faculty of Bucharest University, from which he graduated in 1916.
Career
He contributed to the Ploiești-based Curierul liceului in 1910-1911. In 1914-1915, he edited Poezia magazine, which welcomed submissions from the younger generation while gaining prestige from the contributions of Duiliu Zamfirescu, George Murnu, Ovid Densusianu, Gala Galaction and Dragomirescu. His work also featured in Drum drept, Dumineca, Epoca, Neamul românesc literar, Noua revistă română, Ramuri, Săptămâna politică și culturală a capitalei, Universul literar and Vieața Nouă.
Pen names that he used include Delaziliște, Tarmes, Tartar, Sapiens, Micado, Costo, Amor, Saint, Troedo and Ego.
He collected his verses in the 1910 book Licăriri. He translated works by Charles Baudelaire, Sully Prudhomme, Paul Verlaine, Jean Racine, Ludwig Uhland and Joséphin Péladan.
The French poetry of Iulia Hasdeu. And Horace and Lucretius.
In 1914, he graduated from the military artillery school.
Given the rank of second lieutenant, he was assigned to a border regiment and sent to the frontier with Austria-Hungary. He was killed in action on the Carpathian front two months after Romania"s entry into World War I and decorated post-mortem. His war diary was published as Însemnări din zilele de luptă in 1921 and 1977.
Membership
He was a member of the Gion literary society and of Societatea critică student circle, led by Mihail Dragomirescu.