Constantin Gheorghe Banu (March 20, 1873 – September 8, 1940) was a Romanian writer, journalist and politician, who served as Arts and Religious Affairs Minister in 1922–1923. He is remembered in literary history as the founder of Flacăra review, which he published in two editions, alongside Petre Locusteanu, Ion Pillat, Adrian Maniu, and, later, Vintilă Russu-Șirianu. A best-selling magazine for its time, it functioned as a launching pad for several writers of the Romanian Symbolist movement.
Banu was an affiliate and orator of the National Liberal Party, which he served continuously for 30 years, as a political journalist, public polemicist, and member of Parliament. His contribution as an essayist, lampoonist, and aphorist reflected his progressive approach to labor and productive life, his critique of conservatism, as well as his concept of civilized political mores.
Banu's career in politics reached the international level during World War I, when he took refuge from German-occupied Romania to campaign for the Romanian cause in Paris. Subsequently, during his term as minister, he focused on negotiating a Romanian Concordat and normalizing relations with the Catholic Church. In his final years in politics, he was an affiliate of the National Liberal Party-Brătianu. These activities, like much of his vast (but fragmentary) work in print, or his speeches, endured as the focus of political controversy.
Constantin Gheorghe Banu (March 20, 1873 – September 8, 1940) was a Romanian writer, journalist and politician, who served as Arts and Religious Affairs...
Constantin D. Aricescu Petre S. Aurelian Barbu Bălcescu Nicolae Bălcescu ConstantinBanu Daniel Barbu Ilie Bărbulescu Ioan A. Bassarabescu Constantin...
March 10 – Jakob Wassermann, German novelist (died 1934) March 20 – ConstantinBanu, Romanian politician, journalist, cultural promoter and aphorist (died...
the National Liberal Party, and working alongside Ion G. Duca and ConstantinBanu. He endorsed the Allies during the early stages of World War I, and...
and European champion in foil, International Fencing Hall of Famer ConstantinBanu (1873–1940), writer, journalist, and politician Elisheva Barak-Ussoskin...
LANC, put up Blank's name on an enemies' list which also included ConstantinBanu, Alexandru C. Constantinescu, Wilhelm Filderman, and Gheorghe Gh. Mârzescu...
August 7 – T. O'Conor Sloane, American editor (born 1851) September 8 – ConstantinBanu, Romanian politician, journalist, cultural promoter and aphorist (born...
peasants' revolt comes a government clampdown on the radical authors ConstantinBanu and Nicolae Iorga, whose homes are raided by police. N. D. Cocea is...
"populist imbecility" of nationalist authors such as Popescu-Popnedea or ConstantinBanu. Once Romania declared war on the Central Powers, Vinea was drafted...
Fondane had more success in contacting Flacăra review and its publisher ConstantinBanu: on July 23, 1916, it hosted his sonnet Eglogă marină ("Marine Eclogue")...
credited Iorga, Maiorescu, and especially so the cultural promoter ConstantinBanu and Sămănătorul poet George Coșbuc, with having helped him capture...
public literacy also led him to establish Steaua Association. Joined by ConstantinBanu and Spiru Haret, and later by Barbu Știrbey and Alexandru Lapedatu...
noted contributors to the magazine, as were ConstantinBanu, Ioan Bianu, Gheorghe Gh. Mârzescu, Constantin Alimănișteanu, Ioan Alexandru Brătescu-Voinești...
Mateiu continued to write poetry, published by literary promoter ConstantinBanu in his magazine, Flacăra. His father died in June 1912, which, according...
teachers included Nicolae Coculescu, Ioan Nădejde, Theodor Speranția, and ConstantinBanu. While still a student, he made his published debut in the high school...
21: Traian Bratu, academic and politician (born 1875). September 8: ConstantinBanu, writer, journalist, and politician (born 1873). November 20: Ioan...
Ionescu, Pherekyde, Haret, Constantin Nacu and Nicolae Fleva, and also included ConstantinBanu, Jean Th. Florescu, Constantin Istrati, Basile M. Missir...
Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania Luminița Banu, Florian Banu, "Securitatea, bancherul și vânătoarea — o acțiune de 'lobby cinegetic'...
group. The post-Junimist magazines were joined in this context by ConstantinBanu's eclectic review, Flacăra, itself noted for circulating the writings...
indifference. In 1914, Thalassa was published in a non-definitive version by ConstantinBanu's magazine Flacăra, which sought to revive overall interest in his work...
Rampa and Facla. Solacolu was also published, with his full name, by ConstantinBanu's Flacăra in 1912—he noted that he had used the "then-fashionable" amphibrach...
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