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List Of People From Brașov
This is a list of people from Brașov, Romania. *Violeta Andrei * Lajos Áprily *Teodor Axentowicz *Liviu Cornel Babeș *Ștefan Baciu *Maria Baiulescu *Bálint Bakfark *Stephan Bergler * Ilie Birt *Marcian Bleahu *Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică *Friedrich von Bömches *Brassaï *Mihai Brediceanu *Marius Brenciu *Ștefan Câlția * Henri Catargi *Tudor Ciortea *Coresi *Doina Cornea * Melania Cristescu *Dorin Dănilă *Margarete Depner * * *Delia Duca * * * * Rudolf Fischer * Alexandru Emanoil Florescu * Gheorghe Marin Fontanin *Elena Gaja *Teodora Gheorghiu *Gustav Gräser * Valentin Greissing * *Johannes Honter *Ștefan Octavian Iosif *József Koszta *Constantin Lecca * Aleksandar Lifka *Peter Maffay * George Marinescu * Hans Mattis-Teutsch * Ioan Meșotă * Friedrich Miess * Gabriela and Mihaela Modorcea, twin sisters comprising the duo Indiggo *Lula Mysz-Gmeiner *Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu *Mișu Popp *Dumitru Prunariu *Sextil Pușcariu *,nee Zimerman, second wife of Ariel Sharon (his first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brașov
Brașov (, , ; german: Kronstadt; hu, Brassó; la, Corona; Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the administrative centre of Brașov County. According to the latest Romanian census (2011), Brașov has a population of 253,200 making it the 7th most populous city in Romania. The metropolitan area is home to 382,896 residents. Brașov is located in the central part of the country, about north of Bucharest and from the Black Sea. It is surrounded by the Southern Carpathians and is part of the historical region of Transylvania. Historically, the city was the center of the Burzenland, once dominated by the Transylvanian Saxons, and a significant commercial hub on the trade roads between Austria (then Archduchy of Austria, within the Habsburg monarchy, and subsequently Austrian Empire) and Turkey (then Ottoman Empire). It is also where the national anthem of Romania was first sung. Names Brassovia, Brassó, Brașov, etc. According to Dragoș Mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ștefan Câlția
Ștefan Câlția (born May 15, 1942) is a contemporary Romanian painter. Born in Brașov, he attended the arts and music high school in Timișoara from 1959 to 1963, having Julius Podlipny as a teacher. He then graduated in 1970 from the Nicolae Grigorescu Institute of Fine Arts in Bucharest, having Corneliu Baba as a teacher. Since the 1970s, Câlția has held exhibitions in Norway, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Romania. In 1993 he became professor at the National University of Fine Arts in Bucharest, and in 2004 he became its chancellor. His works have been acquired by many important museums and art galleries around the world, such as the Norwegian Museum of Contemporary Art in Oslo, Norway, and the Museum of Fantastic Arts in Gruyère, Switzerland. He is the most sold Romanian painter. Honours * Romanian Royal Family The Romanian royal family ( ro, Familia regală a României) was the ruling dynasty of the Kingdom of Romania, a constitutional monarchy in Ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teodora Gheorghiu
Teodora Gheorghiu (born 8 May 1978 in Brașov) is a Romanian soprano who has performed in opera, concert and recital across Europe. Early life and training Gheorghiu was born in Brașov, where she studied the flute before focussing on singing. She pursued vocal studies at the Academia de Muzică Gheorghe Dima in Cluj-NapocaTeodora Gheorghiu: There's no magic to opera singing and went on to participate in several competitions, including the |
Elena Gaja
Elena Gaja (born 26 October 1946 in Braşov, Romania) is a Romanian mezzo-soprano opera singer. She graduated from the Ciprian Porumbescu Music Academy in Bucharest where she studied under Magda Ianculescu. In December 1982, she won joint first prize in the ''Concorso Internazionale "Vincenzo Bellini" per Cantanti Lirici'' in Italy, becoming the first Romanian singer to have won this prize. She was a soloist of the Romanian National Opera in Timișoara and toured throughout Europe as well as performing at the George Enescu Festival The George Enescu Festival (also known as George Enescu International Festival and Competition), held in honor of the celebrated Romanian composer George Enescu, is the biggest classical music festival and classical international competition hel .... She retired from the stage in 1996 but continued to give concerts and opera recitals with a repertoire that includes opera arias, sacred arias, oratorio, lied to tango, zarzuelas and film music. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gheorghe Marin Fontanin
Gheorghe Marin Fontanin (October 1825–April 24, 1886) was an Imperial Austrian-born Wallachian and Romanian educator. Born in Brașov, in the Transylvania region, his father Dumitru Marin was a merchant from Izvoarele, Dâmbovița County, Wallachia, who fled north during the 1821 uprising. His mother, ''née'' Hagi-Panteli, was from Bucharest. Gheorghe added ''Fontanin'' to his name; this was a latinization of his father's native village, Izvoarele ("the streams").Pătrașcu, pp. 74-75 Associated with the Latinist school of Romanian culture, he later helped edit a Latin-Romanian dictionary. He studied in Brașov and in a private boarding school at Sibiu. He continued his education at Cluj and at the University of Vienna, where he took a doctorate in philosophy. In 1848, he was in Bucharest, a participant in that year's revolution, but fled to Sibiu for a few months after the city was occupied by the Ottomans. He later returned to Bucharest and in 1851 moved to Craiova, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandru Emanoil Florescu
Alexandru Emanoil Florescu (22 January 1822 – 1907) was a Wallachian and Romanian politician. Florescu came from a ''boyar'' family; his father Manolache was a ''vornic'', while his mother was Tinca Faca. He was the younger brother of Ion Emanuel Florescu.Octav George Lecca, ''Familiile boerești române'', pp. 233-34. Bucharest: Editura Minerva, 1899 Born in Brașov, in the Transylvania region of the Austrian Empire, he left for the Wallachian capital Bucharest, where he attended Saint Sava College. He graduated in 1840, and Florescu then became a copyist at the state secretariat, later rising to secretary. In 1846 he went to Paris, studying law for two years. After the Wallachian Revolution of 1848, he returned home and was named to a number of terms as county prefect and prefect of the Bucharest police. Dimitrie R. Rosetti, ''Dicționarul contimporanilor'', p. 77. Bucharest: Editura Lito-Tipografiei Populara, 1897 In the years leading up to the Union of the Principalities, whi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rudolf Fischer (historian)
Rudolph Fischer (September 17, 1923 – February 18, 2016) was a Romanian historian and linguist. References 1923 births 2016 deaths People from Brașov Transylvanian Saxon people Romanian people of Hungarian-Jewish descent 20th-century Romanian historians {{Romania-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delia Duca
Delia Duca Iliescu (or Delia Monica Duca, born in 1986) is a TV host presenting a national TV show about chess on romanian Realitatea Plus TV channel, called “Strategie in alb si negru“ (“Strategy in black and white”)- with weekly editions starting from 2015. She was Miss Universe Romania 2012 and represented her country at the Miss Universe 2012. She is an IT professional, a chess player and FIDE chess arbiter. Pageant experiences * In 2008, she competed at Miss Tourism Queen International 2008 (China), and placed in Top 20 semi-finalists. * In 2010, she competed at Miss Globe International 2010 (Cyprus), and placed in Top 15 semi-finalists and was awarded as Miss Sympathy. * In 2011, she won the title Miss Intercontinental Romania and competed in Miss Intercontinental 2011 (Spain). * In 2012, she competed at Miss United Nations 2012 (USA) and won the Supermodel United Nations 2012 title. * In 2012, she competed at Supermodel International 2012 (Thailand) where she placed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margarete Depner
Margarete Depner (née, Margarete Scherg; 22 March 1885 - 2 September 1970) was a Romanian sculptor, painter and illustrator of Transylvanian Saxons, Transylvanian Saxon ancestry. Born in Braşov in 1885, she died in 1970 in the same city. In 1931, she studied at the Berlin studio of Josef Thorak. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Depner, Margarete 1885 births 1970 deaths Romanian illustrators Romanian women sculptors Romanian women illustrators People from Brașov Transylvanian Saxon people 20th-century Romanian painters 20th-century Romanian sculptors Romanian women artists 20th-century women artists 20th-century women painters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorin Dănilă
'' Viceamiral'' Dorin Dănilă (born June 29, 1953) was the Chief of the Romanian Naval Forces Staff from 3 November 2006 to 3 July 2010. He was born in Braşov. In 2010 he was promoted to the rank of vice admiral and discharged from active duty. Studies * Mircea cel Bătrân Naval Academy * Military Academy, Command and Staff Faculty * Naval Post-Academic Course * International Humanitarian Law Course * French language French ( or ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Nor ... Course * Public Relations Course * Post-Academic Course in Strategic Command, War College. Assignments * Communications officer on board an ASW ship: 1976-1978; * Staff Officer, Communications Branch, ASW Ship Squadron: 1978-1980; * Commanding Officer, ASW Ship: 1980-1981; * Deputy Commander, MCM Ship Squadron: 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melania Cristescu
Melania Elena Cristescu is a Romanian–Canadian biologist and ecologist. She is an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Ecological Genomics at McGill University and the Co-Editor of ''Genome''. Early life Born in Brașov, Cristescu chose her career while examining aquatic habitats in the Danube Delta or exploring trails and caves of the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania during her childhood summer vacations. The French oceanographer and explorer Jacques Cousteau influenced her. She was also influenced by the books of Ștefan Negrea, a Romanian biologist and speleologist. Career Cristescu earned her BSc Honors in Biology at Ovidius University of Constanța in 1996. After spending a year in Rochester, New York studying English, she moved to Canada, where she obtained a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology at the University of Guelph in 2004, under the direction of Paul D. N. Hebert. After working as an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Indiana University, she became an associ ... [...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] |
