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Hajongard Cemetery
Hajongard cemetery (officially Central Cemetery, in Hungarian ''Házsongárdi temető'', from German ''Hasengarten''), on Avram Iancu Street, is one of the oldest cemeteries in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, founded in the sixteenth century. It is one of the most picturesque sights of the city. It covers an area of approximately . Notable interments * Ion Agârbiceanu (1882–1963), writer, journalist, politician, academician and archpriest * János Apáczai Csere (1625–1659), humanist scholar * Gheorghe Avramescu (1884–1945), Lieutenant General during World War II * Miklós Bánffy (1873–1950), writer, illustrator, scenographer and foreign minister of Hungary * Matei Boilă (1926–2015), politician and priest * Sámuel Brassai (1797–1897), linguist and teacher * Nicolae Bretan (1887–1968), opera composer, baritone, conductor, and music critic * Constantin Daicoviciu (1898–1973), historian, archaeologist, professor, and communist politician * Aurel Ciupe (1900–1985), pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chapelle Bethlen Házsongárd Cluj
Chapelle or La Chapelle may refer to: Communes in France * La Chapelle, Allier * La Chapelle, Ardennes * La Chapelle, Charente * La Chapelle, Savoie * Les Chapelles, Savoie department Other places * Église de la Chapelle or Kapellekerk, a church in Brussels * Quartier de La Chapelle, a neighborhood of Paris, France * La Chapelle (Paris Metro), a metro station in Paris, France * Porte de la Chapelle (Paris Metro), a metro station in Paris, France * Sainte-Chapelle, a Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité, Paris, France * La Chapelle, Artibonite, a commune in Artibonite department, Haiti * La Chapelle, a commune of Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland * Chapelle, Glâne, a municipality of the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland * Archbishop Chapelle High School, a high school in New Orleans, United States * Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen, Germany Other uses * La Chapelle (Church), a Baptist Evangelicalism, Evangelical Multi-site church, multi-site church based in Montreal, Canada. *Chapelle (surn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doina Cornea
Doina Cornea (; 30 May 1929 – 3 May 2018) was a Romanian human rights activist and French language professor. She was a dissident during the communist rule of Nicolae Ceaușescu. She was co-founder of the Democratic Anti-totalitarian Forum of Romania (''Forumul Democrat Antitotalitar din România''), as the first attempt to unify the democratic opposition to the post-communist government. This organization later transformed into the Romanian Democratic Convention (''Convenția Democrată Română'', CDR), which brought Emil Constantinescu to power. Early life Born in Brașov, Romania, Cornea began studying French and Italian at the University of Cluj in 1948. After graduation, she taught French at a secondary school in Zalău, where she married a local lawyer.Deletant, p.261 She returned to Cluj in 1958, where she worked as an assistant professor at the Babeș-Bolyai University. Her first political engagements were made in 1965, when, she witnessed how a friend of hers was cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raluca Ripan
Raluca Ripan (27 June 1894 – 5 December 1972) was a Romanian chemist, and a titular member of the Romanian Academy. She wrote many treatises, especially in the field of analytical chemistry. Biography She was born in Iași, in the Moldavia region of Romania; her parents were Constantin and Smaranda Ripan, both originally from Huși. She attended the local girl's high school, after which she enrolled in the Faculty of Science of the University of Iași, graduating in 1919. For her graduate studies she went to the University of Cluj in Transylvania, obtaining her PhD in 1922 under the direction of Gheorghe Spacu, with thesis "Double amines corresponding to double sulphates in the magnesium series". She is recognized as the first woman from Romania to earn a Ph.D. in the chemical sciences. After obtaining in 1930 her Habilitation and the title of Docent, Ripan became an associate professor of analytic chemistry at the Faculty of Science of the University of Cluj. During World War ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biospeleology
Biospeleology, also known as cave biology, is a branch of biology dedicated to the study of organisms that live in caves and are collectively referred to as troglofauna. Biospeleology as a science History The first documented mention of a cave organisms dates back to 1689, with the documentation of the olm, a cave salamander. Discovered in a cave in Slovenia, in the region of Carniola, it was mistaken for a baby dragon and was recorded by Johann Weikhard von Valvasor in his work ''The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola''. The first formal study on cave organisms was conducted on the blind cave beetle. Found in 1831 by Luka Čeč, an assistant to the lamplighter, when exploring the newly discovered inner portions of the Postojna cave system in southwestern Slovenia.Vrezec A. et al. (2007Monitoring populacij izbranih ciljnih vrst hroščev (končno poročilo) (Monitoring of selected populations of target beetle species). Natura 2000 report. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emil Racoviță
Emil Gheorghe Racoviță (; 15 November 1868 – 19 November 1947) was a Romanian biologist, zoologist, speleologist, and Antarctic explorer. Together with Grigore Antipa, he was one of the most noted promoters of natural sciences in Romania. Racoviță was the first Romanian to have gone on a scientific research expedition to the Antarctic. He was an influential professor, scholar and researcher, and served as President of the Romanian Academy from 1926 to 1929. Early life Born in Iași, he grew up on a family estate, in Șurănești, Vaslui County, he started his education in Iași, where he had Ion Creangă as a teacher, and continued his secondary education at the ''Institutele Unite'', a private high school for boys in Iași, taking his baccalauréat in 1886. He then studied law at the University of Paris, obtaining a law degree in 1889. But he did not pursue a law career, instead turning to the natural sciences. His mentor was zoologist and biologist Henri de Lacaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiberiu Popoviciu
Tiberiu Popoviciu (February 16, 1906–October 29, 1975) was a Romanian mathematician and the namesake of Popoviciu's inequality and Popoviciu's inequality on variances. The Tiberiu Popoviciu High School of Computer Science in Cluj-Napoca is named after him. In 1951 he founded a research institute which now bears his name: Tiberiu Popoviciu Institute of Numerical Analysis. Biography Popoviciu was born in Arad in 1906, and attended high school in his hometown, the school which is now the Moise Nicoară National College. He graduated from the University of Bucharest, and got his doctorate in 1933 under Paul Montel from Paris-Sorbonne University. He was a lecturer at the Universities of Cernăuți, Bucharest, and Iași. In 1946 he was appointed professor at the University of Cluj. On June 4, 1937 Popoviciu was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. In November 1948 he was elected a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. He became full member ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Paget (author)
John Paget (18 April 1808 – 10 April 1892), ''Paget János'' in Hungarian, was an English agriculturist and author on Hungary. Life and works Paget was born in Loughborough. He was educated at the Unitarian Manchester College at York, and then read medicine. He travelled extensively in Europe. He married the Hungarian Baroness Polyxena Wesselenyi Banffy (née de Hadad), divorced wife of Baron Ladislaus Banffy, on 15 November 1836. He lived on his wife's estate in Transylvania, developing the farming there with an "improved" breed of cow, and campaigning for improvements to agriculture. His diary, in six volumes, was in Hungary's National Museum (and today it is in the National Széchényi Library in Budapest). Volumes 1-5 contain observations on natural history around Europe. Volume 6 records Hungary's 1849 war of independence, in which Paget took part. He is known for his 1839 book ''Hungary and Transylvania''. In 1878 after the World Exhibition in Paris he was given the cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transylvania
Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the Apuseni Mountains. Broader definitions of Transylvania also include the western and northwestern Romanian regions of Crișana and Maramureș, and occasionally Banat. Transylvania is known for the scenery of its Carpathian landscape and its rich history. It also contains Romania's second-largest city, Cluj-Napoca, and other iconic cities and towns such as Brașov, Sibiu, Târgu Mureș, Alba Iulia and Sighișoara. It is also the home of some of Romania's List of World Heritage Sites in Romania, UNESCO World Heritage Sites such as the villages with fortified churches in Transylvania, Villages with fortified churches, the Historic Centre of Sighișoara, the Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains and the Rosia Montana Mining Cultural Landsc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Imre Mikó
Count Imre Mikó de Hidvég (4 September 1805 – 16 September 1876) was a Hungarian statesman, politician, economist, historian and patron from Transylvania, who served as Minister of Public Works and Transport between 1867 and 1870. He was one of the liberal-oriented, prominent figures of the politics of Transylvania in the 19th century. He functioned as Governor of Transylvania twice (1848 and 1860–1861). He worked tirelessly for the rise of his home in economic, cultural and scientific areas, earning the honorary title of "Széchenyi of Transylvania". Biography He started his political career as an official of the Gubernium (the Government of Transylvania) in 1826, and reached the position of Treasurer in 1847, at the same time he became a leading figure of the liberal opposition in Transylvania. He was appointed interim, then actual Governor during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. He presided the Székely National Assembly in Agyagfalva (today: ''Lutița, Romania''), wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lajos Martin
Lajos Martin (30 August 1827 – 4 March 1897) was a Hungarian mathematician and engineer, known by his works in transportation and aerodynamics. Life and work He was the seventh son of a wine grower. After completing his studies in the Roman Catholic Secondary School, he began studies in the University of Pest. The 1848 European revolutions disrupted his studies and due his active participation was imprisoned and after enrolled in the Imperial Army. Finally, he finished his studies graduating in 1854 in the Military Engineering Academy in Vienna., page 426. He was teaching in the Vienna's Military School until 1859 when he left the army and returned to Buda where he worked privately as civil engineer until 1861. From 1863 to 1868 he was teaching at secondary schools in Selmecbánya and Pressburg and he wrote some textbooks on mathematics in this level. In 1872 he was appointed professor of mathematics in the university of Kolozsvár. He became rector of the university in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aureliu Manea
Aureliu Manea (4 February 1945, Bucharest – 13 March 2014, Galda de Jos) was a Romanian theatre director, actor, and writer. Life Aureliu Manea studied theatre directing under Radu Penciulescu (1930–2019) at the Caragiale National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, graduating in 1968. The same year, he made his debut as a director with a highly original production of Henrik Ibsen's ''Rosmersholm'' at the State Theatre of Sibiu. He went on to stage a large number of productions, including works by Shakespeare, Sophocles, Seneca, Chekhov, Arnold Wesker, Jean Racine, Jean Cocteau, and Georg Büchner, as well as Romanian classics, such as Ion Luca Caragiale's ''A Stormy Night'' and Tudor Mușatescu's ''Titanic Waltz'', and plays by contemporary Romanian dramatist Teodor Mazilu (1930–1980). Suffering from ill health, Manea withdrew from theatre life in 1991 and was a patient at the Neuropsychiatric Recuperation and Rehabilitation Centre, Galda de Jos, Alba County, u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenő Janovics
Jenő Janovics (8 December 1872 – 16 November 1945) was a Hungarian film director, screenwriter and actor of the silent era. He directed 33 films between 1913 and 1920. He also wrote for 30 films between 1913 and 1918. He was the founder and driving force behind the Corvin Film studio, which also involved the rising young director Alexander Korda. He was born in Ungvár, Carpathian Ruthenia, Austria-Hungary (now Uzhhorod, Ukraine), and died in Cluj, Romania. Selected filmography * '' The Yellow Foal'' (1913, dir. Félix Vanyl) * ''The Exile'' (1914, dir. Michael Curtiz) * '' The Borrowed Babies'' (1914, dir. Michael Curtiz) * ''Bánk Bán'' (1914, dir. Michael Curtiz) * '' Miska the Magnate'' (1916, dir. Alexander Korda) * '' Tales of the Typewriter'' (1916, dir. Alexander Korda) * ''White Nights'' (1916, dir. Alexander Korda) * '' Struggling Hearts'' (1916, dir. Alexander Korda) * '' The One Million Pound Note'' (1916, dir. Alexander Korda) * ''Magic Magic or Magic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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