36 Facts About Dumitru Karnabatt

Dumitru or Dimitrie Karnabatt was a Romanian poet, art critic and political journalist, one of the minor representatives of Symbolism.

Dumitru Karnabatt was a disciple of both Alexandru Macedonski and Stefan Petica, representing the conservative and mystical school of Romanian Symbolism, and a regular contributor to the newspaper Seara.

Dumitru Karnabatt is remembered as the husband and, for a while, literary partner of novelist Lucrezzia Karnabatt.

Dumitru Karnabatt's collaborationism, exemplified by the propaganda articles he wrote for Gazeta Bucurestilor, earned him a jail sentence in March 1919.

Dumitru Karnabatt was ultimately released in January 1920, but the scandal still had repercussion throughout the 1920s, hindering his career in the interwar press.

Dumitru Karnabatt's first recorded public activity was as an 1890s socialist, who took part in cultural debates at Sotir Hall, Bucharest.

Dumitru Karnabatt moved away from the socialists, whom he criticized, decades after the fact, for their "uncouth, massive and compact materialism, which denied categorically and offensively any prospect of spirituality and metaphysics".

In 1910, Dumitru Karnabatt became a star contributor to the daily Seara.

Dumitru Karnabatt, who often signed his articles there with the self-mocking pen name Censor, or as Don Ramiro, was a regular attendant of Bogdan-Pitesti's literary club.

However, Dumitru Karnabatt remained a conservative among the Symbolists, opposed to the fashion of artistic primitivism, and locked in disputes with the primitivist half of Tinerimea Artistica salon.

Already in 1910, in what later critics have read as a sign of his obtuseness, Dumitru Karnabatt ridiculed Constantin Brancusi over his modern primitive sculptures, Sagesse and The Kiss.

Dumitru Karnabatt probably had a quarrel with Bogdan-Pitesti, against whom she preserved a lifelong grudge.

Dumitru Karnabatt still worked at Minerva newspaper, earning the sympathy of other literary reviewers.

In late 1910, a concerned Dumitru Karnabatt read news about the invention of Futurism, an Italian current that promoted modern subjectivity and rejected the traditional norms.

Still, according to Boia, Dumitru Karnabatt was exceptionally active, but "truly insignificant" as a writer.

Dumitru Karnabatt was one of four journalists risking trial for the slander of Romanian Land Forces commanders, but was defended by his colleagues in the press, who staged formal protests in his name.

The first clues were shown in July 1914, when Dumitru Karnabatt published articles blaming the Kingdom of Serbia for the Sarajevo Assassination, while criticizing the interventionists.

When it became clear that the Central Powers were engaged in a complex war with the Russian Empire, Dumitru Karnabatt's Russophobia came into effect, and he called on Romania to join Germany for the recovery of Bessarabia.

Dumitru Karnabatt adhered to this position until October 1915, when the Kingdom of Bulgaria, a Slavic country, joined the Central Powers.

In early summer 1916, Dumitru Karnabatt traveled to Germany, and sent back notes about the state of affairs in that country.

Lastly, Dumitru Karnabatt and Slavici's pieces stood out for their Anglophobia: having already theorized that the war was carried by British imperialism, Dumitru Karnabatt later suggested that the English were natural-born sadists.

Under the occupation, Dumitru Karnabatt became a contributor to Macedonski's Literatorul review, in its final series.

Dumitru Karnabatt then restated his preference for Symbolism with a topical essay in the magazine Renasterea.

Dumitru Karnabatt was still writing poetry in 1917 and 1918, putting out two new volumes of verse: Crini albi si rosii, with Independenta Printers, and, at Poporul Publishers, Mozaic bizantin.

The state's case against Dumitru Karnabatt relied on evidence of treason: Gazeta Bucurestilor had effectively been founded by the Germans.

From 1921, D Karnabatt made his return to cultural journalism, his work taken up by Flacara, and by Pamfil Seicaru's Ora and Hiena.

Dumitru Karnabatt's work continued to be appreciated by the Symbolists, but was derided elsewhere.

Dumitru Karnabatt's poetry was hosted by the Transylvanian literary review, Gandirea, in its Issues 1,2,4 and 5 for 1921.

Dumitru Karnabatt took over as managing director of a Cluj-based political newspaper, Infatirea.

In reaction, Cultura Poporului newspaper informed its readers that, although indeed talented, Dumitru Karnabatt was a convict and a political suspect, and called for the Romanian press to be "purified" of such characters.

Dumitru Karnabatt joined the Bucharest Journalists' Circle, a friendly society established in 1931.

An occasional contributor to Seicaru's Curentul, Dumitru Karnabatt was working with Indreptarea, a tribune of the People's Party.

Dumitru Karnabatt's scattered articles include a 1932 chronicle in Lupta, popularizing the poetry of biochemist Vintila Ciocalteu.

Still denouncing modernist experimentation, Dumitru Karnabatt clashed with the 1920s avant-garde.

In 1942, Dumitru Karnabatt put out his own romanticized biography, or hagiography, of Saint Francis.

In 1944, at Editura Vremea, Dumitru Karnabatt published his lat volume, the memoir Bohema de altadata.