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VACARESCU , the name, according to tradition, of one of the See also:

oldest See also:noble families in See also:Walachia. Its mythical founder is said to have been a certain Kukenus, of See also:Spanish origin, settled in Transylvania as See also:lord over Fogaras. Others connect the See also:family with Ugrin, See also:count of Fogaras. The first member of See also:historical importance was Ianache (b. 1654), the See also:grand treasurer of Walachia, who was killed with his See also:master, See also:Prince See also:Brancovan, in See also:Constantinople, 1714. His See also:grandson through his son See also:Stephan, also called Ianache (or " Enakitza the See also:Ban," 1730-1796), starts a See also:line of Rumanian scholars and poets; he was the author of the first known Rumanian See also:grammar in the See also:vernacular, printed in 1787. While in See also:exile in See also:Nicopolis he wrote the contemporary See also:history of the See also:Turkish See also:empire in two volumes (1740-1799). He was also the first to See also:attempt Rumanian versification. Greater as a poet is his son Alecu '(See also:Alexander), who died as a prisoner in Constantinople in 1798. In 1796 a collection of his poems appeared in See also:Rumania. His See also:brother Nikolaes (d. 183o) also wrote some poems, but they remained in MS. until 186o, when they were published.

By far the greatest member of the Vacarescu family in the male line was Iancu (1786-1863), the son of Alexander. He received an excellent See also:

education not only in See also:Greek but also in See also:German and See also:French, and was well versed in the literature of the See also:West. An ardent patriot, he sided with the See also:national See also:movement in 1821, and assisted in establishing the Rumanian See also:theatre, translating many books and plays from German and French into Rumanian, notably the See also:Britannicus of See also:Corneille, a See also:literary event of no small importance at the See also:time. He inaugurated See also:modern Rumanian See also:poetry. In 183o appeared his first See also:volume of See also:verse. He died in 1863. A niece of Alexander is the gifted writer Elena Vacarescu (Helene Vacaresco), who inherited the poetical See also:talent of her family and has enriched Rumanian literature with her See also:Bard of the Dimbovitza, and other poems and novels in Rumanian and in French. (M.

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