34 Facts About Constantin Gane

Constantin Gane was a Romanian novelist, amateur historian, biographer and memoirist.

An apologist for Romanian conservatism and Junimism, Gane completed in 1936 a biography of Petre P Carp.

Constantin Gane was editor at Convorbiri Literare and a columnist for Cuvantul, putting out his own literary newspaper, Sanziana.

Constantin Gane retired from politics for the remainder of World War II, and resumed his work in literature.

Constantin Gane's work was banned by communist censors, then selectively recovered from 1969.

Constantin Gane descended from boyardom, but had more recent Greek Romanian ancestry, traceable to the Phanariote period.

Constantin Gane later claimed that she was a descendant of Byzantine aristocracy, a theory dismissed as self-aggrandizing by Radulescu.

Constantin Gane believed that the Cananos had more distant Italian roots, against authors which suggest they were "Levantines".

At some point before 1915, Constantin Gane was secretary to Conservative Party politician Ioan Lahovary.

From 1916, Constantin Gane fought in the campaigns of World War I, part of the 8th Vanatori Regiment stationed at Manastirea Casin.

Constantin Gane published prose, articles, notes and reviews, correspondence, travel accounts, plays and novel fragments in Epoca, Universul Literar, Curentul, Cele Trei Crisuri, Politica, Revista Fundatiilor Regale, Luceafarul and Flacara, and Convorbiri Literare, serving for a while in 1926 as the latter's editor.

Constantin Gane was the niece of Silvestru Morariu Andrievici, Bishop of Bukovina, and the great-granddaughter of poet Constantin Stamati.

Constantin Gane held conferences and, between 1929 and 1937, a series of Radio Bucharest lectures on historical, cultural and literary themes, including the first trial of Mihail Kogalniceanu, Dimitrie Cantemir, and the novels of Stefan Zweig.

Constantin Gane contributed to Ion Gigurtu's Libertatea, where he published a study on the formation of Romania's political parties and a genealogical essay on Maurice Paleologue.

On October 9,1937, Constantin Gane began putting out the Bucharest-based Sanziana, a literary newspaper.

Constantin Gane remained in the area throughout the Greco-Italian War and during the German invasion of Greece, being finally recalled on June 15,1941.

Constantin Gane put out a 1943 sequel to Trecute vieti, titled Amarate si vesele vieti de jupanese si cucoane.

In early 1944, Constantin Gane was publishing the circle's specialized yearbook Arhiva Genealogica Romana, which he described as the continuation of works undertaken by Sever Zotta; he was additionally lecturing on behalf of the YMCA at the Bucharest Atheneum.

Shortly after Romania proclaimed an armistice with Soviet Russia in mid-1944, Constantin Gane fled Bucharest, hiding out on the Sebes Valley alongside the poet and fellow diplomat Lucian Blaga; their host was a local peasant, who had been active in the Iron Guard.

Constantin Gane was again arrested shortly after, then sent to a concentration camp in Caracal, sharing his cell with Panaitescu and the missionary priest Ilarion Felea.

Constantin Gane was released from camp by 1948, but singled out for repression by the communist regime.

Agents of the Securitate identified him as a figure on the far-right of anti-communist resistance, reporting that Constantin Gane was acting as an adviser to Petrascu.

Constantin Gane was re-arrested in December 1948, as part of a clampdown, and sentenced in 1949.

Constantin Gane was dispatched to Aiud Prison in Cluj Region, where he was subjected to mistreatment and pushed to exhaustion.

Constantin Gane complained of exhaustion and told his jailer that he was on the brink of dying; they ultimately released him after other prisoners proceeded to bang on their cell doors and demand that Gane be spared.

Constantin Gane died in Aiud before this could happen, and was buried in an unmarked grave.

Constantin Gane's death is commonly believed to have occurred in April 1962, but the Gane family records the date as May 13.

In 1969, a relative liberalization allowed mentions of the deceased writer, and his nephew, Gheorghe Constantin Gane, Jr, published a brief bio in Clopotul of Botosani.

Constantin Gane kept his uncle's genealogical archive in a Bucharest garage, before emigrating to West Germany; some of these papers were then preserved by genealogist and family friend Stefan C Gorovei.

Calinescu openly ridiculed Constantin Gane for passing trivia about his own family into his works.

Constantin Gane responded that there was nothing commonplace about his family.

Iorga substantiated this allegation by listing errors supposedly found in Constantin Gane's chapter, including the "calumny" regarding Alexandru Ioan Cuza's involvement in a conspiracy against Barbu Catargiu.

Constantin Gane's enduring masterpiece is Trecute vieti de doamne si domnite, volume I of which was granted a prize by the Romanian Academy.

Constantin Gane was puzzled by Gane's decision to include a rhyming preface, as well as for adding "quite doubtful" explanations for the reader, which omitted a number of bibliographic sources.