Dimitrie C. Ollănescu-Ascanio (March 21, 1849 – January 20, 1908) was a Wallachian, later Romanian poet, prose writer and playwright. Born in Focșani, his parents were Constantin Ollănescu, an army captain who later became a magistrate, and his wife Maria (née Caloian). He attended high school at Bucharest's Saint Sava High School and at the private Institutul Academic in Iași. He then studied at the universities of Paris and Brussels, earning his doctorate in law, administrative and political science from the latter institution in 1873. He worked as a magistrate in Tecuci, becoming the town's mayor. In 1876, he entered the diplomatic field, serving as chargé d'affaires at Constantinople, Vienna and Athens. He was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy in 1893, and was vice presi