Ion Biberi was a Romanian prose writer, essayist and literary critic.
Education
His paternal grandfather was a physician who studied at Leipzig University. In Craiova between 1914 and 1921, he attended gymnasium followed by the military high school. He then studied at the medical faculty of Bucharest University, and was also enrolled in the literature and philosophy faculty.
Career
Biberi had one brother. Earning a doctorate in medicine and surgery, he became a primary care psychiatrist. He made his published debut in the A. A. Luca-edited Orizontul magazine with the 1919 article "Un gigant al imperiului solar: Iupiter".
His first literary work was short prose that appeared in Bilete de Papagal, and drew praise from editor Tudor Arghezi.
Other magazines that ran his work include Revista română, Kalende, Viața Românească, Tinerețea, Lumea, Gazeta literară and Ramuri. Biberi"s fiction was written from the perspective of a scientist interested in the psychological motivation of human experiences and the abysses of the subconscious.
His output included a modernist novel (Proces, 1935), a novella (Oameni în ceață, 1937), monographs (Lev North Tolstoi, 1947. Tudor Vianu, 1966; Ion Sava, 1974), literary portraits, essays (Poezia, mod de existență, 1968.
Argonauții viitorului, 1971.
Essai sur la condition humaine, 1973. Eros, 1974), works on literary aesthetics, dialogues, interviews (Lumea de mâine, 1945. Orizonturi spirituale, 1968), anthologies (Nuvela romantică germană, 1968) and numerous scientific articles