Victor Vlad Delamarina (August 31, 1870 – ) was an Austro-Hungarian

Austria-Hungary

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-born Romania

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n poet.

Born in Satu Mic (today called Victor Vlad Delamarina

Victor Vlad Delamarina, Timis

Victor Vlad Delamarina is a commune in Timiş County, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Herendeşti, Honorici, Pădureni, Petroasa Mare, Pini, Victor Vlad Delamarina and Visag....

) near Lugoj in the Banat

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, he attended primary school taught in Hungarian

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 and German

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, followed by gymnasium

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 in Lugoj. Moving to the Romanian Old Kingdom

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, he went to Saint Sava National College

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 in Bucharest

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, to the military high schools in Craiova

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 and Iaşi

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, and to the Higher Military School in Bucharest for two years, becoming a Second Lieutenant

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 in the Romanian Naval Forces

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. Commissioned to the brig Mircea

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, during the summer of 1891 he sailed on the Constanţa

Constanta

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-Istanbul

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-Chios

Chios

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-Rhodes

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-Piraeus

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-Thessaloniki

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-Constanţa

Constanta

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 route. He chronicled the journey in Călătoria bricului Mircea ("The Voyage of the Brig Mircea"), published later that year. He also participated in tours on the protected cruiser NMS Elisabeta

NMS Elisabeta

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 on the Black Sea

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, the Mediterranean

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 and the Adriatic

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.

Delamarina began writing as a schoolboy. Travel recollections of his appeared in Familia

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in 1893, and the following year, Valeriu Branişte published his poems in the Timişoara

Timisoara

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 journal Dreptatea. By virtue of these poems' being written in the Banat subdialect of Romanian

Banat subdialect of Romanian

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, Delamarina introduced a new trend in Romanian poetry: the use of written subdialect. A number of literary historians underlined the importance of his contribution, including Titu Maiorescu

Titu Maiorescu

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, Ilarie Chendi, I. D. Suciu, Gabriel Ţepelea, George Muntean, Al. Bistriţeanu and Virgil Vintilescu. The latter published a study of his life and work in 1967.

He died in 1896, aged 25, in Petroasa Mare

Victor Vlad Delamarina, Timis

Victor Vlad Delamarina is a commune in Timiş County, Romania. It is composed of seven villages: Herendeşti, Honorici, Pădureni, Petroasa Mare, Pini, Victor Vlad Delamarina and Visag....

village near his birthplace, and was buried in Lugoj.