- Henri Stahl
Henri Stahl (1877-1942) was a
Romania nstenographer and writer. Stahl was the chief stenographer of theRomanian Parliament and in 1908, he created an original system of a stenography, which became the Romanian stenography standard. In 1914, he published the first Romanian "classicscience fiction " novel, "Un român în lună" ("A Romanian on the Moon"). He was the father ofŞerban Voinea , an activist of the Romanian Social Democratic Party, of novelistHenriette Yvonne Stahl , and of sociologistHenri H. Stahl .Mircea Ioanid, "Oameni care mi-au fost dragi. H. H. Stahl", in "Magazin Istoric ", November 1995]Biography
Born to a family of Alsatian and French-Swiss ancestry, Stahl was a student of historian
Nicolae Iorga and he kept a good relationship with his professor for all his life. [Nicolae Iorga , "Scrisori către Catinica" (edited byAndrei Pippidi ),Editura Minerva , Bucharest, 1991, p. 145]Stahl's first writing was "Un român în lună" ("A Romanian on the Moon"), which he showed to Iorga prior to attempting to publish it. He met Iorga's opposition, who asked him "to forget the moon and stars" and try to write a book using the same style which he used for the first chapter of his book, in which he describes the city of
Bucharest .Florin Manolescu, "Literatura S.F.",Editura Univers , Bucharest, 1980 p. 231-233] As such, Stahl's literary debut was in 1910 with "Bucureştii ce se duc" ("Disappearing Bucharest"), a colourful description of people and places from the Romanian capital at the beginning of the 20th century. [ro icon Simona Câlţia, [http://www.observatorcultural.ro/informatiiarticol.phtml?xid=8426&print=true "Henri Stahl, "Bucureştii ce se duc"] , in "Observator Cultural ", Nr.171, May-June 2003]Nevertheless, Stahl did publish his science fiction novel, first in 1913 a few chapters in the
Victor Anestin 's "Ziarul Călătoriilor" journal, and printed all of them as a single volume in 1914.References
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