Nicolae Beldiceanu (; 26 October 1844 in

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- 2 February 1896 in

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) was a

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and

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. Beldiceanu was the first person to write about the discoveries made at the archaeological site near the town of

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, Romania. He had helped four other scholars from Iași with its excavation in 1885, the year he published an article entitled ''Antichitățile de la Cucuteni'' (Antiquities of

). Here was made the first discovery of what became known as the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture. His son and namesake, Nicolae, was also a poet and writer.

Selected works

* ''Tala''. Nuvelă contimporană, Iași, 1882 * ''Antichitățile de la Cucuteni'' article in the journal: Schiţă arheologică, 1885 * ''Elemente de istoria românilor'', I-III, Iaşi, 1893-1894 * ''Poezii'', Iași, 1893 * ''Doine'', Iași, 1893 * ''Poezii'', Bucharest, 1914

External links

Partial bibliography
of Nicolae Beldiceanu's works and literary contributions.

References

Bibliography

* ''Dicționarul literaturii române de la origini până la 1900'', Bucharest, 1979 * ''Dicționarul scriitorilor români'', coordonat de Mircea Zaciu, Marian Papahagi, Aurel Sasu, A-C, Bucharest, 1995 1844 births 1896 deaths People from Suceava County Romanian poets Romanian male poets Burials at Eternitatea cemetery 19th-century Romanian poets 19th-century Romanian male writers {{romania-writer-stub