Duiliu Zamfirescu

Duiliu Zamfirescu
Born	(1858-10-30)30 October 1858 Dumbrăveni, Vrancea County
Died	3 June 1922(1922-06-03) (aged 63) Agapia, Neamț County
Resting place	Focșani cemetery
Pen name	Don Padil
Occupation	novelist, poet, short story writer, journalist, memoirist, politician, diplomat, lawyer, schoolteacher
Alma mater	University of Bucharest
Period	1877–1920
Genre	fiction, lyric poetry, autobiography
Literary movement	Neoclassicism, Parnassianism, Realism, Romanticism, Literatorul, Junimea
55th Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania
In office 13 March 1920 – 12 June 1920
Prime Minister	Alexandru Averescu
Preceded by	Alexandru Vaida-Voevod
Succeeded by	Take Ionescu
34th President of the Assembly of Deputies
In office 30 June 1920 – 22 January 1922
Monarch	Ferdinand I
Preceded by	Nicolae Iorga
Succeeded by	Mihail Orleanu
Personal details
Political party	People's Party
Spouse	Henrietta Allievi ​ (died 1920)​

Duiliu Zamfirescu (30 October 1858 – 3 June 1922) was a Romanian novelist, poet, short story writer, lawyer, nationalist politician, journalist, diplomat and memoirist. In 1909, he was elected a member of the Romanian Academy, and, for a while in 1920, he was Foreign Minister of Romania. Zamfirescu is best remembered for his Comăneștenilor literary cycle, comprising his novels Viața la țară [ro], Tănase Scatiu [ro], În război, Îndreptări, and Anna.