Mircea Streinul

Mircea Streinul (2 January 1910 – 17 April 1945) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian prose writer and poet.

Biography Born in Cuciurul Mare, in the Bukovina region, his parents were the Romanian Orthodox priest Gavril Streinul and his wife Olimpia (née Șandru). He attended primary school in his native village. From 1920 to 1928, he studied at Aron Pumnul High School in Cernăuți, the capital of the region, which had meanwhile become part of Romania. While there, he was a member of the Steluța cultural society and managed the school magazine, Ecoul tinerimii. With three classmates, he published the single number of Caietul celor patru magazine. In 1929, he entered the theology faculty of Cernăuți University, graduating in 1934. While a student, he contributed to the local publications Tribuna, Spectatorul, Munca intelectuală, Evenimentul, Glasul Bucovinei and Junimea literară.