Șerban Bascovici

Șerban Bascovici (born Șerban-Vasile Bascovitz; January 1, 1891–March 19, 1968) was a Romanian poet

Born in Bucharest to Gheorghe Bascovitz and his wife Ecaterina, he attended Matei Basarab High School. Upon graduating in 1911, he attempted to attend the law faculty of Bucharest University, but gave up, likely due to material difficulties. Instead, he was hired as a civil servant within the Labor Ministry. Working at the social insurance office, he became department head near the end of his career. He made his poetry debut in 1906 in Ovid Densusianu's Vieața Nouă, to which he contributed constantly until 1916. His work was also published in Convorbiri critice, Literatorul, Flacăra, Sburătorul, Grădina Hesperidelor, Cugetul românesc, Revista Fundațiilor Regale, Universul literar and Gândirea. Around 1909, he was attracted to Symbolism, passionately reading Paul Verlaine, Stephane Mallarmé, Henri de Régnier, Maurice Maeterlinck and Henrik Ibsen; he particularly admired Emile Verhaeren, whom he considered a "social symbolist". He considered Symbolism to be the only literary movement fit for the age. During World War I, he withdrew to Iași along with the rest of the Romanian government, and after his return to Bucharest upon the end of the war, he entered Alexandru Macedonski's circle.

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