Constantin Stamati | |
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| Born | 1786 Iaşi, Romania |
| Died | 12 September 1869(1869-09-12) (aged 82–83) Ocnița, Moldova |
Constantin Stamati (1786 – 12 September 1869) was a Romanian/Moldovan writer and translator. Born in thePrincipality of Moldavia, he settled inChișinău,Bessarabia (presently in Moldova) after the 1812 partition of Moldavia at the end of theRusso-Turkish War.
Stamati became a civil servant and official translator under the firstRussian administration of the region. He was rewarded by the Russian Emperor with theMedal of Saint Anne and became a knight of that order.
He made the acquaintance of the Russian poetAlexander Pushkin at the time of latter's exile to Chişinău in 1820–1823. Stamati's most important work,Povestea poveştilor ("The Tale of Tales"), an idealized description of Moldavia's beginnings in verse, was published in Iaşi in 1843. His other works include contemporary satires and glorifications of Moldavia's past.
In 1866, he became one of the founding members of theRomanian Academy.
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