Nicolae Nicoleanu (born Neagoe TomoÃÂoiu; June 16, 1835–April 7, 1871) was a Romanian poet. born in the Austrian Empire.
Born in Cernatu SÃÂcelelor, a village near BraÃÂov in the Austrian Empire, Nicoleanu crossed into Wallachia to attend the episcopal seminary in BuzÃÂu, followed by the National College in Craiova. At age 23, he left for Paris, returning three years later after passing through Berlin and Antwerp. He began his journalistic career at C. A. Rosetti's Românul. At age 27, having moved to Moldavia, he became a clerk in Roman. At 29, he was a school director in the provincial capital, IaÃÂi. He then worked as a clerk at the State Archives, spent a year as a school inspector for IaÃÂi, Vaslui, and FÃÂlciu counties, was a clerk in the Education Ministry, and a secretary at the State Archives in the Wallachian capital, Bucharest. He went insane at age 33 and never recovered, dying in a hospice in Pantelimon. His only published book, a collection of verses called Poezii and prefaced by Iacob Negruzzi, was published in IaÃÂi in 1865.