Alexandru Odobescu

Alexandru Ioan Odobescu (; 23 June 1834 – 10 November 1895) was a Romanian author, archaeologist and politician.

Biography

He was born in Bucharest, the second child of General Ioan Odobescu and his wife Ecaterina. After attending Saint Sava College and, from 1850, a Paris lycée, Alexandru Odobescu took the baccalauréat in 1853 and studied literature and archaeology at the University of Paris, graduating two years later.

Selected works Mihnea-Vodă cel rău, 1857 Doamna Chiajna, 1860 Câteva ore la Snagov, 1862 Pseudo-cynegeticos, sau fals tratat de vânătoare, 1875 Le Trésor de Petrossa, 1889 Pagini regăsite Note de călătorie

Other writings include short stories, several dozen scholarly articles, an anthology of folk tales (among them 1875's "Jupân Rănică Vulpoiul" and "Tigrul păcălit") and one of folk poetry, and a History of Archaeology (1877). He also translated both literary and scholarly works.