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Calistrat Hogas

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Calistrat Hogas

Writer

Born on April 19, 1847 in Tecuci (Moldavie) in the family from the priest Gheorghe Dimitriu. Registered at the nursery school under the name of “Hogas”, the nickname of the large father who will become later his name of writer.

1860-1869 it follows the courses of the Academy “Mihaileana” of Iasi or it binds friendships for all the life with historian A.D. Xenopol and the philosopher Vasile Conta.

After 1869 he becomes professor with the College of Piatra Neamt, marries the girl of a priest and starts to write poems.

After a career of professor enough agitated, marked by conflicts with the leaders of the colleges, he becomes director of the college of Piatra Neamt.

He becomes a close relation of large Rumanian playwright I.L. Caragiale, which occupies at the time a station of inspector of schools in the department of Piatra Neamt.

It is in 1882 that it makes its literary beginning as prosator in the review “Asachi”.

Calistrat Hogas written its memories of the voyages made in the mounts of Neamt. He was a strange character, while travelling on his small horse, which he called “Kitten”, a man of a majestic stature, which carried one
not very usual “sombrero” among the peasants Moldavian and who went everywhere, curious and interested by the least details about the places and the life of the inhabitants.

From 1912 it starts has to test the publication of the sound delivers principal, which imposed it besides in the Rumanian literature
“On the ways of the mountains”, a full fresco of the Mounts of Neamt and places known or strange of the vicinity. But of many faults of printing works obliges it has to put its books at the rammer.

It also publishes tales and gives conferences such as for example “Some ideas on the psychology and the character of the Rumanian people” or “the Rumanian festivals to the countryside”.

He was also a professor and director of Romance College the “- Voda” of the Town of Novel.

In 1914 its book is published but the totality of the specimens burns in a fire of large proportions which destroys the typography.

In 1915 a literary price is refused to him. Saddened by the death of the one of his daughters, marked by the events of the war (First World War), and by intended of his literary, sick work of a pulmonary emphysema, on August 28, 1917, the writer dies in his house, surrounded by the children of the one of his daughter, Cléopatra Silberg, married in the town of Novel, and is buried in Piatra Neamt.

It is after its death that its book “On the ways of the mountains” prefaced by Mihai Sadoveanu, is published and diffused for general public.

In 1922, with the proposal of Liviu Rebreanu, the Company of the Rumanian Writers
he decree a posthumous price, first literary price of the Rumanian Writers.

From 1939, his/her Sidonia daughter makes visit her house museum of Piatra Neamt. The literary work of Calistrat Hogas makes literary description in details of the places and the places of the marginal area of Bucovine de Sud and of the area of Neamt.

It practically described the majority of the monasteries of the North of Moldavie and Bucovine of the South, the ways between Piatra Neamt and Vatra Dornei, the environments of Agapia, the Monastery of Varatec, “Dealul Balaurului” (the hill of the Dragon), the place of Secu, the Mount Ceahlau, small “the Hermitage” Valée of Cracau, the river “Valea Saca” the wild way of Sihla.

also described by Mihai Sadoveanu, “Poiana Sihastriei” (the clearing of the great loneliness), Pipirig (described in the Memories of childhood of Ion Creanga) and the river of Ozana, the way which accompanies the river by Bistrita, wire conducting of this place of a rare beauty.

The ways of Bucovine (today the department of Suceava) are described in the tale “EP Sestina”, which tells the way between Borca and Sarul - Dornei and the “Mount of the Stag”.

The life of the Rumanian country-women and commercial the Jews which lived the place, (like the Avrum character, the grocer) are the subject of the stories treated in the register of humour, by keeping the charm of the conversation.

In spite of the fact that its life was marked per many disappointments and misfortunes its literary pages are still read by all the children of the several generations, in the books of school.

Text: Cléopatra Lorintiu

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