Dan Botta
Dan Botta | |
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Born | |
Died | 13 January 1958 | (aged 50)
Alma mater | University of Bucharest |
Occupation(s) | Poet and essayist |
Parents |
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Relatives | Emil Botta |
Dan Botta (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdan ˈbota]; September 26, 1907 – January 13, 1958) was a Romanian poet and essayist.
Life
Born in Adjud, his parents were the physician Theodor Botta and his wife Aglaia (née de Franceschi), an orphanage director; his brother was poet and actor Emil Botta.[1] His father was descended from an old Transylvanian family, the noble status of which was confirmed by Christopher Báthory in 1579, and related to Bishop Ioan Bob. Theodor Botta, caught in the national struggle of Transylvania's Romanians during the rule of Austria-Hungary, took refuge in the Moldavia region of the Romanian Old Kingdom after completing his medical studies at Vienna. A doctor for the Căile Ferate Române state railway, he took part in World War I and died in 1921. Aglaia was the daughter of Francesco Maria de Franceschi, a Corsican who settled in Moldavia in 1872 and worked as a technician at the Sascut sugar factory.[2]
Botta attended primary school in his native town, followed by high school in
Botta's first book was the poetry volume Eulalii (1931,
He died in Bucharest in 1958.
Notes
- ^ "Biografie: Emil Botta – poet, prozator și actor român". www.colegiulemilbotta.ro (in Romanian). Emil Botta National College, Adjud. Retrieved 27 November 2021.
- ^ ISBN 973-697-758-7
- ISBN 978-973-46-1711-1