Eugeniu Botez
Eugeniu Botez, who also wrote under the pseudonym Jean Bart, was a Romanian writer, best known for his novel Europolis.
He was born, at the time a village in Botoșani County, now a neighborhood of the city of Suceava. His father, Panait Botez, was a general in the Romanian Army; his mother was Smaranda and his brother was Octav Botez. At age 4 he moved with his family to Iași; in elementary school he had as teacher Ion Creangă. After attending the military high school in Iași from 1889 to 1894, he went to Bucharest, where he graduated from the Officers School in 1896 with the rank of second lieutenant.
Botez had three children: Călin-Adam, Stroe-Eugen and Ada. The boys were from his first marriage with Marioara Dumitrescu, and Ada from his second marriage with Mania Goldman. Mania retained her husband's name, becoming known as the pianist Manya Botez.
He was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1922. He died in Bucharest in 1933.