Education
He attended primary school in his native town and high school in Craiova, following which he studied medicine in Paris and law at the University of Bucharest.
director playwright deputy poet
He attended primary school in his native town and high school in Craiova, following which he studied medicine in Paris and law at the University of Bucharest.
He worked as deputy director of theatres, director of the Iași National Theatre and inspector general of theatres, and was also a director and amateur actor. His first published poem, "În cimitir", appeared in Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu"s Revista nouă. Other magazines that ran his work include Vatra, Convorbiri Literare, Flacăra, Viața literară, Falanga, Rampa and Scena.
His main body of work consists of poems and plays.
His collections of poetry (Prima, 1896. Cinci poeme, 1897; Secunda, 1898.
Sexta, 1901. Octava, 1904. A noua, 1904.
Poezii, 1911), clearly influenced by French writers, in particular the Symbolists, featured verses that were "odiously interpreted" and with numerous "trivialities", per George Călinescu. The series of plays he authored contain little of artistic value, are based on characters with unclear psychological states and feature plots not always sufficiently endowed with motive (Tertia Casta diva, 1899.
Quarta Jucătorii de cărți, 1900. Quinta Suprema forță, 1901.
Septima Câinii, 1902.
Cancer la inimă, 1907). He also wrote short stories, collected as Crăngi in 1914. He translated William Shakespeare, Pierre Corneille, Jean Racine, Victor Hugo, Honoré de Balzac, Théodore de Banville, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Maurice Maeterlinck, Giovanni Boccaccio, Alphonse Daudet and Arthur Conan Doyle.