Background
After his father died during his youth, Bengescu joined the army at age fifteen.
After his father died during his youth, Bengescu joined the army at age fifteen.
He attended military academies in Austria and France, eventually becoming a general.
Foreign five years, he taught a course on general administration at the Higher War School, and published a number of military-related books He sometimes used the pen names G. Bradu and Glonț ("bullet") or his initials, B. Doctorate.
Bengescu-Dabija"s concerns included the cultivation of the language and the valuing of its folk resources, as well as the reorganization of the theatre for the purposes of national uplift, along the lines begun by Vasile Alecsandri and Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu. His literary debut work was the 1870 Amorul unchiului, a vaudeville act adapted from Eugène Sue.
Matilda Cugler-Poni appeared in the stage version.
He wrote librettos for operetta shows and added comic and dramatic pieces to the repertory. These include Radu III cel Frumos (1875), Cucoana Nastasia Hodoronc (1877) and Pygmalion, regele Feniciei (1886).
He served as Senator for Fălciu County, was a member of Junimea and contributed verses and plays to its Convorbiri Literare organization