Alexandru A. Philippide (Romanian pronunciation:[alekˈsandrufiliˈpide]; April 1, 1900 – February 8, 1979) was a Romanian poet.
The son of linguistAlexandru Philippide, he was born inIași. He studied law, literature, philosophy and political economy at theUniversity of Iași,of Berlin andof Paris. Making his poetry debut in 1919, he published rarely, with volumes appearing in 1922, 1930 and 1939. Thus, his decision to enter an artistic strike after the onset of theCommunist regime passed unnoticed. During this period, he translated or improved texts byJohann Wolfgang von Goethe,Friedrich Schiller,E. T. A. Hoffmann,Heinrich Heine,Thomas Mann,Voltaire,William Shakespeare,Alexander Pushkin,Leo Tolstoy,Rabindranath Tagore and many others. He was not an open dissident, accepting corresponding membership in theRomanian Academy in 1955 and titular membership in 1963. Once thesocialist realist phase had passed, he began writing poetry again. He was buried inBellu cemetery inBucharest.[1]
A street in Bucharest bears his name. Initially calledPia Brătianu, it was renamed afterOlga Bancic under communism and given Philippide's name following theRomanian Revolution.[2]
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