 Entering the Law Faculty of the University of Bucharest, he received his degree in 1932.His father, also named Barbu, was a lawyer at the High Court of Cassation and Justice, and the son was expected to enter the same profession.His first volume of verse was published in 1929, which upset the father, as people thought he had written it; from then on, the son signed himself "Barbu B. Brezianu".