Tristan Tzara, pseudonym of Samuel Rosenstock (although Tzara always denied that this was his name) was born in Moinesti, Romania, on April 4, 1896. In 1916, in Zurich, Switzerland, he founded the Dada movement, along with Marcel Janco, Hugo Ball and Huelsenbeck, and the Alsatian Hans Arp. He published several issues of the magazine Dada, who had a significant influence in the intellectual circles of Germany and France. In 1919 he arrived in Paris, where he established the center of the Dada movement with partners Littérature magazine: André Breton, Louis Aragon, Philippe Soupault, Francis Picabia and Jacques Rigaut, among others. In 1922 he distanced himself from Breton and his friends, who later would form to surrealism. In 1929 he was reconciled with the surrealists until 1935, when it was finally removed to adhere to the policy of the Communist Party. In World War II the French Resistance he joined and became a citizen in 1947, when he joined the French Communist Party. Tzara died in Paris, France, December 25, 1963.