Valeriu Marcu

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Valeriu Marcu (1899–1942) was a Romanian poet, writer and historian. He wrote the first biography of Vladimir Lenin.

Marcu, who was Jewish, migrated from Germany to Austria, and then to France, where he and his wife Eva settled in Nice in 1933. In 1940 Varian Fry helped the family get papers to leave France.^[1]

Works

Lenin: 30 Jahre Russland, 1927. Translated by E. W. Dickes as Lenin. New York: Macmillan Co., 1928.
Männer und Mächte der Gegenwar, 1930. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul as Men and forces of our time, 1931

References

↑ Sheila Isenberg, A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry, iUniverse, 2005, pp. 158-60.

External links

Works by or about Valeriu Marcu in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Persondata
Name	Marcu, Valeriu
Alternative names
Short description	Biographer, poet and writer
Date of birth	1899
Place of birth
Date of death	1942
Place of death

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