22 Facts About Panait Cerna

Panait Cerna became the group's main representative during its decline, contributing to both major Junimist magazines, Convorbiri Literare and Convorbiri Critice.

Panait Cerna contributed pieces to the traditionalist magazine Samanatorul, and was briefly affiliated with other literary journals.

Panait Cerna died in Leipzig at the age of thirty-one, after a long battle with tuberculosis.

Panait Cerna's father was an ethnic Bulgarian schoolteacher, named Panayot Stachov.

Panait Cerna was attending lectures at the Faculty of Chemistry and Physics.

Panait Cerna was by then seriously ill with tuberculosis, and sought a change in climate.

Panait Cerna spent much of this period traveling through the Old Kingdom, and several times visited regions of the Southern Carpathians, in particular the area of Rucar, the Bucegi Mountains, and the Jiu Valley.

That year, as Mihail Dragomirescu parted with Mehedinti to establish Convorbiri Critice, which advertised a Junimist agenda while standing against Convorbiri Literare, Panait Cerna became one of his main collaborators.

Panait Cerna visited the University of Heidelberg, but, following the advice of Maiorescu, decided in favor of the University of Berlin, where he studied Philosophy, English and German language literature.

From late 1910 to early 1912, Panait Cerna was at the University of Leipzig, where he attended courses held by the philosophers and psychologists Wilhelm Wundt, Eduard Spranger and Hans Volkelt.

Panait Cerna died in Leipzig, shortly after receiving his diploma.

Zarifopol was present when Panait Cerna succumbed, and recorded that Maiorescu's views on poetry where preoccupied his friend even on his deathbed.

For part of his life, Panait Cerna was formally committed to Symbolism and the local Symbolist movement, whose aesthetic ideals he merged with his lyrical style, and sought to recover part of the Romantic legacy.

Panait Cerna was thus known as the translator of works by Romantic poets, as well as for adopting a Messianic and Humanist perspective on life.

Panait Cerna was a late admirer of Lord Byron, a main figure of English Romanticism, and translated from his Childe Harold.

One of Panait Cerna's poems was an epic piece inspired by the Book of Genesis, where Adam confronts God.

In Plansetul lui Adam and various other pieces, Panait Cerna sought to reconcile poetry and philosophy, thus creating a hybrid form of conceptual poetry.

In one such indignant piece, Panait Cerna called on Peace not to arrive until the social issue would be solved.

Panait Cerna's contributions have helped shaped the style of 20th-century poets with traditionalist tendencies from different schools.

Demostene Botez, another author to have been influenced by Panait Cerna's style, dedicated his mentor a poem which read:.

Lovinescu, who commented on Densusianu and his thoughts on Panait Cerna, opined that Densusianu had a tendency to reject all poets who registered popular success, and that he treated Dimitrie Anghel's work in much the same way.

The poet's house in Panait Cerna is presently a museum, dedicated in part to his memory, and housing a permanent exhibit dedicated to the traditional arts and crafts of Tulcea County.