CARAGIALI, IOAN (1852-1912), Rumanian dramatist and novelist, was born on Jan. 29, 1852, at Ploiesti. In his corn edies, The Stormy Night (188o) and The Lost Letter (1885), he satirized the effects on Rumanian society of too hasty an introduc tion of western customs, and the pretensions of the bourgeois classes in Rumania at that time. He also wrote some powerful short stories, notably The Easter. Torch (189o), and The Sin (1892). His Momenta were collected in 190o and his plays in 1907. He died on June 22, 1912, in Berlin.