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List Of People From Brașov
This is a list of people from Brașov, Romania. *Andreea Adespii *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 (historian), 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 (mathematician), 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 *Sexti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brașov
Brașov (, , ; , also ''Brasau''; ; ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Kruhnen'') is a city in Transylvania, Romania and the county seat (i.e. administrative centre) of Brașov County. According to the 2021 Romanian census, 2021 census, with 237,589 inhabitants, Brașov is the Cities in Romania, 6th most populous city in Romania. The Brașov metropolitan area, metropolitan area was home to 371,802 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 centre 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 Deșteaptă-te, române!, nationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marius Brenciu
Marius Brenciu (born 11 November 1973 in Brașov) is a Romanian operatic tenor. He won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World competition in 2001. He won the second prize at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in 2000; he was a jury member on that competition in 2018. His older brother is the singer of popular music Horia Brenciu Horia Brenciu (; born Horea Augustus Brenciu on 27 August 1972 in Brașov) is a Romanian singer, television host for the Romanian version of ''Dancing with the Stars'', entertainer, and philanthropist. He studied at National College Andrei Şagun .... References Living people Romanian operatic tenors Musicians from Brașov 1973 births 21st-century Romanian male opera singers {{Romania-opera-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. ... [...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 Ioan Emanoil 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, ... [...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 Romanian former beauty pageant contestant and chess player who has hosted the chess-themed television show "Strategie in alb si negru" ("Strategy in black and white"”) on the Romanian channel Realitatea Plus since 2015. She was Miss Universe Romania 2012 and represented her country at 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) whe ... [...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 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 Josef Thorak (7 February 1889 in Vienna, Austria – 26 February 1952 in Bad Endorf, Bavaria) was an Austrian-German sculptor. He became known for oversize monumental sculptures, particularly of male figures, and was one of the most promi .... References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Depner, Margarete 1885 births 1970 deaths 20th-century Romanian illustrators Romanian women illustrators People from Brașov Transylvanian Saxon people 20th-century Romanian painters 20th-century Romanian sculptors 20th-century Romanian women sculptors 20th-century Romanian 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 languages, Romance language of the Indo-European languages, Indo-European family. Like all other Romance languages, it descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. French evolved from Northern Old Gallo-R ... 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: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melania Cristescu
Melania Elena Cristescu is a Romanian–Canadian biologist and ecologist. She is a 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 associate pr ... [...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 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coresi
Coresi (also known as Deacon Coresi; d. 1583, Brașov) was one of the first Romanian printers of the sixteenth century. He was the editor of some of the earliest printed books in the Romanian language. Biography Very little is known about his life, including the year of his birth and the date of his death. He was most likely from Târgoviște and practiced printing in the same city under the guidance of Moise the Monk and Dimitrije Ljubavić who were working for the Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia. He moved to Brașov in 1559, where he started printing books not only in Church Slavonic, but also in Romanian. The epithet deacon was interpreted as meaning "minor writer of Slavonic language in a chancery", yet it is more likely he was an actual deacon of the Eastern Orthodox Church During his activity he printed approximately 35 book titles. His activity was not limited to a single religious group, his works having Calvinist, Lutheran, or Orthodox patronage. List of books printed b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
