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Vasile Grecu
Vasile Grecu (31 July 1885 – 26/27 May 1972) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Romanian philologist and Byzantinist. Born in Mitocu Dragomirnei, north of Suceava, his parents were Manole Greciuc and Ana (née Burac). He studied at the Ștefan cel Mare National College, Greek-Orthodox Gymnasium in Suceava (1897-1905), followed by the Universities of Vienna University, Vienna (1905-1907) and Czernowitz University, Czernowitz (1907-1909), where Sextil Pușcariu was his professor. From 1910 to 1914, he taught Latin and Greek at Dragoș Vodă National College (Câmpulung Moldovenesc), the state high school in Câmpulung Moldovenesc. After the outbreak of World War I, he took refuge in the Romanian Old Kingdom. There, he was a proofreader at ''Monitorul Oficial'' in Bucharest and a substitute teacher at Mircea cel Batrân National College, Mircea cel Batrân High School in Constanța until Romania entered the war in August 1916. From that point until autumn 1918, he was in Bessarabia, where ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austro-Hungarian
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 in the aftermath of the Austro-Prussian War and was dissolved shortly after its defeat in the First World War. Austria-Hungary was ruled by the House of Habsburg and constituted the last phase in the constitutional evolution of the Habsburg monarchy. It was a multinational state and one of Europe's major powers at the time. Austria-Hungary was geographically the second-largest country in Europe after the Russian Empire, at and the third-most populous (after Russia and the German Empire). The Empire built up the fourth-largest machine building industry in the world, after the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom. Austria-Hungary also became the world's third-largest manufacturer and exporter of electric home appliances, el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
