Horia Stamatu

Horia Stamatu (September 9, 1912 – July 7/8, 1989) was a Romanian poet, essayist, and far-right politician.

Biography Born in Vălenii de Munte, where he attended primary school, Stamatu went on to military high school and then the literature and philosophy faculty of the University of Bucharest. From 1936 to 1937, he was a substitute teacher at Bucharest's Cantemir Vodă High School. He was an editor at Enciclopedia României from 1938 to 1940, In 1941, in the aftermath of the rebellion, he left for Germany through Bulgaria, and was interned at Buchenwald concentration camp with other members of the Iron Guard from 1942 to 1944. He was sentenced to death in absentia by a Romanian military tribunal.