Cezar_Bolliac

'''Cezar Bolliac''' or '''Boliac''', '''Boliak''' (March_23, 1813—February_25, 1881) was a Wallachian and Romanian radical political figure, amateur archaeologist, journalist and Romantic poet. ==Life== ===Early life=== Born in Bucharest as the son of Anton Bogliako (''Bogliacco'' or ''Bolliac''), a Greek-Italian physician, and his wife Zinca Pereţ, who remarried the ''Stolnic'' Petrache Pereţ; his adoptive father took care of Cezar's education. After being taught reading and writing at home, Bolliac studied at the Saint_Sava_Academy, under Ion_Heliade_Rădulescu - Rădulescu was to become one of his most important collaborators. In 1830, he joined the newly-refounded Wallachian_Army as a member of its Officer_corps. Three years later, Bolliac became a member of the secret ''Philarmonic Society'', created by Ion_Câmpineanu, Rădulescu, and Constantin_Aristia. In 1835, he published his first lyrical works. A year later, he began editing the review ''Curiosul''. ===''Frăţia'' and manifestos=== With fellow radicals Nicolae_Bălcescu and Eftimie_Murgu, Bolliac joined in Mitică_Filipescu's conspiracy against Prince Alexandru_II_Ghica and, later in the year, entered the Freemasonry-inspired ''Frăţia'' ("Brotherhood") Secret_society. In 1844, through the means of ''Foaie_pentru_minte,_inimă_şi_literatură'', he appealed to young writers: :"''The times of Petrarch are over, gentlemen poets! The century demands progress, Propaganda for the great idea, propaganda for the true charity that we lack entirely. (...) Form societies, declare, write down, praise, satirise, start working with all intellectual and moral devices, and the enslavement shall crumble, for it is half-crumbled, and you gentlemen shall be given the blessings of future generations as true Apostles of the heavenly mission, of brotherhood and freedom.''" In an article he published in 1846 in the pages of the same magazine, Bolliac showed his admiration for the works and attitues of Victor_Hugo, which he recommended as a guide to Wallachian writers. ===Revolution and later life=== Consequently, he was one of the leaders of the 1848_Wallachian_revolution, and took exile after the Ottoman-Russian intervention in September. In Braşov, Transylvania (on Austrian domain), Bolliac began publishing ''Espatriatul'', a paper which featured the subtitle ''Dreptate, Frăţie'' ("Justice, Brotherhood"), a rendition of the revolutionary slogan. After 1857, he settled in Paris, and published the French-language poem ''Domnul Tudor. Episode de la révolution roumaine de 1821'' ("Voivode Tudor. An Episode of the 1821 Romanian Revolution"), and began issuing his review ''Buciumul'', a mainly political magazine. He returned to Wallachia in 1858, after the Crimean_War had led to a drastic decrease in Russian influence (allowing for radicals to regin their country), and took an archaeological study trip. He included the results of his investigations in ''Buciumul'' and its succesor ''Trompeta Carpaţilor'' (he began editing the latter in 1865). During the period, Bolliac also engaged in activism in favor of Wallachia's union with Moldavia, a goal reached under Alexander_John_Cuza. He later became a notorious anti-Semite, rejected the idea of Naturalization for the Jews, and engaged in a polemic over this issue (and that of his version of Romanticism in general) with ''Junimea'''s Titu_Maiorescu.Ornea, p.389 He died in Bucharest, by then the capital of the Kingdom_of_Romania. ==Published volumes== *''Operile lui Cezar Boliac. Meditaţii'' ("The Works of Cezar Boliac. Musings", 1835) *''Din poeziile lui Kesar Boliak'' ("Selected Poems of Kesar Boliak", 1843) *''Poezii nouă'' ("New Poems", 1847) *''Poezii umanitare'' ("Humanitarian Poems", 1866) ==Notes==

==References== *Z._Ornea, ''Anii treizeci. Extrema dreaptă românească'', Ed. Fundaţiei Culturale Române, Bucharest, 1995 Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Bolliac, Cezar Ro:Cezar_Bolliac