George Ion Diamandy or Diamandi, first name Gheorghe or Georges, was a Romanian politician, dramatist, social scientist, and archeologist.
76 Facts About George Diamandy
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George Diamandy was an early affiliate of the Romanian Social-Democratic Workers' Party, but grew disenchanted with its radical policies, and, as a member of its "generous youth" faction, played a major part in dissolving it.
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George Diamandy was pushed back to the forefront during the early stages World War I, when he supported an alliance with the Entente Powers.
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George Diamandy advised Premier Ion I C Bratianu on the matter and was sent on diplomatic missions to the West, helping to cement France's trust for Romania.
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George Diamandy fought in the ill-fated campaign of 1916, and withdrew to Iasi, retaking his seat in Chamber.
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George Diamandy was the brother and collaborator of diplomat Constantin I Diamandy, and the posthumous grandfather of writer Oana Orlea.
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George Diamandy is largely forgotten as a dramatist, but endures in cultural memory for his controversial politics and his overall eccentricity.
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George Diamandy, the son of landowner Ion "Iancu" Diamandy and Cleopatra Catargiu, was born in Idrici, Vaslui County, or, by his own admission, in Barlad.
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Constantin and George Diamandy had a sister, Margareta, later married Popovici-Tasca.
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George Diamandy then returned to study at the United Institutes High School in Iasi, where he notably put out a clandestine student magazine, Culbecul.
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George Diamandy disliked the school and claimed that it gave him rheumatism and heart problems.
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George Diamandy's brother had entirely different opinions in this respect, calling socialism "a farce".
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George Diamandy published political articles in the review Contemporanul, following up with similar contributions to Munca and Raicu Ionescu-Rion's Critica Sociala.
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George Diamandy neglected his schoolwork and, in his own words, passed his Baccalaureate "more than anything because the professors were generous".
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George Diamandy developed a passion for archeology, enjoying in particular the books of Gabriel de Mortillet and Theodor Mommsen.
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George Diamandy camped out with Nicolae Beldiceanu in Cucuteni, where he helped on the inventory of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture.
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George Diamandy was a member of the Barlad National Romanian Committee, which gathered funds and artifacts for the Romanian delegation to the 1889 Exposition Universelle.
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George Diamandy was working on a novel in the manner of Emile Zola, which, according to Gorovei, was over-detailed and boring.
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George Diamandy went on to study Law at the University of Paris, but did very poorly, and was only granted half of his license; he completed the rest at Caen University.
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George Diamandy pursued other scholarly interests, becoming a corresponding member of the Societe Anthropologique.
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George Diamandy published notices on Cucuteni, as well as studies on Bulgarian handicrafts and a sketch of Romanian anthropological criminology.
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George Diamandy completed, in 1891, the historical demography tract Depopulation et repeuplement de la France.
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George Diamandy was one of its delegates to the 1891 International Socialist Labor Congress in Brussels.
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On July 1,1893, George Diamandy published the first issue of a "monthly for scientific socialism", L'Ere Nouvelle.
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George Diamandy spent more time in the taverns of Montmartre than at University.
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George Diamandy proudly noted that it was "France's first Marxist magazine".
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George Diamandy unwittingly enticed the conflicts between Sorel and the POF when he wrote in L'Ere Nouvelle that, according to Guesde, one need not have read Marx to become a Marxist.
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Still, George Diamandy managed to exert his direct influence over many other Romanian socialist students in France, from Racovita and Nadejde to Alexandru Radovici, Constantin Garoflid, Deodat Taranu, Dimitrie Voinov, and Ioan Cantacuzino.
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George Diamandy was part of a new magazine, Le Devenir social.
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George Diamandy personally sponsored the emerging socialist movement in the Kingdom of Romania.
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In partnership with Garabet Ibraileanu, George Diamandy edited for a while the PSDMR organ, Lumea Noua, exploring the possibility of returning to his home country.
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George Diamandy was present at secretive meetings between PSDMR founders and the agrarian group of Ion Th.
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The reformists, distrustful of Banghereanu's sustained effort to spread socialism in rural areas, pushed for a schism: Mortun, Radovici, and, after a while, George Diamandy himself, proposed that the entire PSDMR leadership leave the party and become PNL members.
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Buzdugan claimed that George Diamandy had expunged the very notion of class conflict from his readings of Marxism.
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Many of those who opted for a "workers' party" resigned, while George Diamandy's supporters announced that a new conference in June 1899 would transform theirs into a "sincerely democratic party".
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George Diamandy himself was dismissive of his contribution: "I entered the ranks of the liberal party, where I played a most silent and irrelevant part".
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George Diamandy registered with the 3rd Electoral College, hoping to represent the peasants of Tutova County.
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Finally elected to the Chamber of Deputies in the 1901 race, which returned the PNL to power, Diamandy challenged Petre P Carp, the outgoing Premier, to an oratorical duel in Chamber, over the issue of deficit spending.
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George Diamandy inherited from Simionescu-Ramniceanu the large estate of Sascut, but a conflict over land with the local peasants.
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Also according to Lovinescu, George Diamandy was "a late-comer" among enthusiastic Francophiles, one whose "mind continued to live in Paris".
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George Diamandy was appointed Prefect of a war zone, Tecuci County, with specific orders that he was not to use the Land Forces against the peasants.
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George Diamandy gave his endorsement to Stere's project of land reform, which was resisted by the Conservatives, as well as by Bratianu and Nadejde.
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George Diamandy believed it necessary to criticize the PNL from within.
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In 1910, George Diamandy published his first works in drama: a four-act play, Tot inainte, and a "dramatic sketch", Bestia.
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George Diamandy did not join the Romanian Writers' Society, objecting to its antisemitism, and suggesting, in a letter to Noua Revista Romana, that the professional association had admitted talentless authors.
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In 1910, George Diamandy founded the weekly Revista Democratiei Romane, which, as a cultural and sociological venture, suggested a program of ethnographic studies in the Romanian villages, and printed an edition of Bestia.
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Outside this circle, George Diamandy found himself isolated on the political scene, and was no longer proposed for an eligible seat in the elections of 1911, presenting a full report on his activities to his Tutova constituents.
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Revista Democratiei Romane survived until 1912, by which time George Diamandy had decided to stay away from political journalism, "since I only see fit to write as my conscience tells me to".
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However, George Diamandy complained that his works were ignored by the National Theater, despite good referrals from writers Iacob Negruzzi and Zamfirescu.
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George Diamandy bought himself a yacht, Spargeval, and sailed the Black Sea coast, writing on other plays.
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On his way through Babadag, a traditional Turkish-and-Islamic center in Romania, George Diamandy refurbished the local Tekke, planting a new votive inscription over the tomb of Gazi Ali.
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One of them, Ioan Massoff, recalled that George Diamandy had made a habit of citing his heart troubles to avoid seeing any of his subordinates, simply dictating his reform-minded wishes to them by proxy.
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However, Livescu believes that George Diamandy had good cause to ignore complaints and avoid quarrels.
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The fantasy format of the play satisfied George Diamandy, who went on to publish other plays and dramatic fragments: Struna cucoane, Hamaita, Regina Lia, and the libretto for a children's opera, Gheorghita Fat-Frumos, set to music by Alfons Castaldi.
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George Diamandy combined both assignments, collecting grants for the writers through Theater benefits, and selling Romanian books through a special booth in the Theater's foyer.
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George Diamandy's mandate came to an end in August 1915, when he assigned his seat to Alexandru Mavrodi.
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George Diamandy visited traditionally-hostile Bulgaria, and claimed to have obtained assurances from Prime Minister Vasil Radoslavov that she would not join the Central Powers.
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George Diamandy had a meeting with Raymond Poincare, the President of France.
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George Diamandy introduced this enigma to Poincare: "Romania looks forward to France's victory and to Russia's defeat".
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George Diamandy gave a public report on the world conflict and how it fit with Romania's national interest at the National Liberal Party Center of Studies.
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George Diamandy put out a complete collection of his novellas.
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George Diamandy voiced the mainstream opinion of the PNL in open disputes with the Conservative Petre P Carp.
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George Diamandy rejected Carp's fears that a victorious Russia looked set to occupy the Danube Delta, but noted that he himself had reserves about bringing Romania into the war, and made public his resignation from the "National Action".
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Nevertheless, George Diamandy supported his former ally, Stere, who was being heckled by the other deputies for suggesting that an alliance against Russia was in Romania's benefit.
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George Diamandy was reputedly enrolled as a private, but was seen traveling with his own orderly.
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George Diamandy was detached to the Second Army commandment in the Southern Carpathians, where he held conference with General Alexandru Averescu and other officers.
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George Diamandy saw action in the front-line trenches, but was still plagued by his lung and heart problems, and was eventually sent to a hospital behind the lines.
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George Diamandy was moved to Iasi, the provisional capital, where Bratianu's government and the Parliament had relocated.
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George Diamandy took back his Chamber seat, and, as the poor management of war weakened support for Bratianu, went on public record with his criticism.
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George Diamandy himself authored the central manifesto, published as a brochure.
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In June 1917, following the renewed offensive of the Central Powers, George Diamandy became a refugee to Russia, where his brother Constantin was Romanian Ambassador.
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George Diamandy fled to the White Sea port of Arkhangelsk, where he embarked on the ship Kursk, bound for France.
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George Diamandy's death was received with indifference by the Germanophiles and wearied intellectuals in Bucharest.
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Stere himself rekindled memories of George Diamandy by making him a secondary character, "Raul Dionide", in the 1930s novel In preajma revolutiei.
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George Diamandy is often regarded as a very minor contributor to Romanian literature.
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George Diamandy's viciousness is confronted by an idealistic husband, who is an "artificial" character.