Cezar Bolliac
Romanian writer and scholar · Romania · On the map · Writers · Lived 1813 to 1881 · aged 67
Cezar or Cesar Bolliac, also known as Boliac, Boliacu, Boliak and Boleac, was a Wallachian and Romanian writer, scholar, and political figure. Although born to non-Romanian parents, he joined the local aristocracy, or boyardom, through adoption into the Pereț family.
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Church of the Poiana Mărului Monastery
Portrait of Bolliac in 1854, by his friend Theodor Aman
Bolliac's topographic map of Greater Romania, ruled to have been plagiarized from Jean Léon Sanis
The "monstrous coalition" as asses in lion skins; from an 1864 cartoon in Umoristul, republished by Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu's Aghiuță
A swarthy Bolliac and Grigorie Serrurie fighting each over the deputy seat for Vlașca, after the elections of 1867 (January 1868 cartoon in Ghimpele)About this person
He was briefly a cadet in the Wallachian military forces, but harbored resentment toward the Russian Empire, which had brought Wallachia into its sphere of influence. Abandoning a military career, he took up writing and publishing and, for a time, edited a literary magazine called Curiosul, which bridged neoclassicism and romanticism. Like other Romanian liberals and Freemasons, Bolliac opposed the Russian constitutional arrangement known as the Regulamentul Organic, viewing it as a remnant of feudalism. He was therefore implicated in the anti-Russian conspiracy of 1840 and was detained on orders from Prince Alexandru II Ghica. He was ultimately released through the intervention of other members of the Ghica family, who remained his friends and protectors.
