Liviu Rebreanu(1885-1944)

Liviu Rebreanu, was the first born of the 13 children of a small village teacher. After usual school and gymnasium education in North Transylvania, (then part of Austro- Hungarian Imperium), learns in a military school and then between 1903 and 1908 in the Military Academy in Budapest, Hungary. In 1908, he resign and moves to live in Bucharest, Romania. After 1920 his novels "Ion" (the Lust For Land), "Ciuleandra", and "Rascoala" (the Uprising) brings him wide recognition as a valued writer. In 1922 he published "Padurea spanzuratilor" (the Forrest of the Hanged), inspired by his brother Emil tragic fate. An Austro - Hungarian officer of Romanian ethnic origin, is sent to fight in WWI on Eastern front, the Romanian army. When he tried to cross the front line, the officer is sentenced to death and hanged. Liviu Rebreanu dies a week after occupation of Romania by the Red Army.