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Mihai Viteazul National College ( ro, Colegiul Național Mihai Viteazul) is a high school located at 62 Pache Protopopescu Boulevard,

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, Romania.

History

The school traces its origins to 1865, when

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was becoming overcrowded and two gymnasium classes were split off, marking the start of a separate institution. In 1867, Prince Carol decreed the establishment of Michael the Great Gymnasium, marking its legal beginning. For some 30 years, the school did not have its own building, moving around from place to place. It ultimately settled in the yard of the

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. The students showed solidarity with the 1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt. During the Central Powers’ occupation in World War I, the school was evacuated, its archive destroyed and classes suspended. Following the war, it was decided to construct a permanent building on land acquired by the Education Ministry in 1914. Mihai Surdu
History
at the Mihai Viteazul National College site The cornerstone was laid in 1921 and work on the main building was largely completed by 1928. It was used as a field hospital in World War II. In the early years of the

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, the 1937 auditorium burned down during a spontaneous student protest, which led to four students (including

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) being condemned to harsh prison sentences. The chapel on the upper floor became and remains a gymnastics room, although the high windows retain cross shapes. Eventually, the school was again moved, while the building housed a workers’ school. It returned as School nr. 13, and was again named after

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in 1969. It was declared a national college in 1996. In 2011, by which time there were 1,200 students, the building underwent a thorough restoration. The school building is listed as a

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by Romania's Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs.

Alumni and faculty

Alumni

* Bartolomeu AnaniaOfficial biography
*

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* Virgil I. Bărbat *

* Radu Boureanu * Ana Caraiani. *

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Alexandru Claudian Alexandru Claudian (also rendered as Al. Claudian; April 8, 1898 – October 16, 1962) was a Romanian sociologist, political figure, and poet. A student and practitioner of Marxism, he worked as a schoolteacher, entry-level academic, field researc ...

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Horia Gârbea
"Meseria de a scrie (la comandă)"
in ''

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'', Nr. 992, March 2009 *

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Biography
at the Hidroelectrica site *

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Sasu, vol. II, pp. 677-79. *

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* Ioan Matei Constantinescu

Faculty

Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică Gheorghe Bogdan-Duică (born Gheorghe Bogdan; –September 21, 1934) was an Imperial Austrian-born Romanian literary critic. The son of a poor merchant family from Brașov, he attended several universities before launching a career as a critic, f ...

George Bogdan-Duică (ed. Dumitru Petrescu), ''Studii și articole'', pp. xlii–xliii. Editura Minerva, Bucharest, 1975 *

Bonifaciu Florescu Bonifaciu Florescu (first name also Boniface, Bonifacio, Bonifati, last name also Floresco; born Bonifacius Florescu; May 1848 – December 18, 1899) was a Romanian polygraph, the illegitimate son of writer-revolutionary Nicolae Bălcescu. Born se ...

* Petre V. Haneș *

Constantin Noe Constantin Noe (1883 – 6 June 1939) was a Megleno-Romanian editor and professor. He was born in 1883 in the Megleno-Romanian village of Lagkadia ( in Megleno-Romanian), then in the Ottoman Empire and now in Greece. He was one of the best st ...

* George Potra *

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Nicolae Iorga Nicolae Iorga (; sometimes Neculai Iorga, Nicolas Jorga, Nicolai Jorga or Nicola Jorga, born Nicu N. Iorga;Iova, p. xxvii. 17 January 1871 – 27 November 1940) was a Romanian historian, politician, literary critic, memoirist, Albanologist, poet ...

, "Cronică", in ''Revista Istorică'', Issues 10–12/1938, pp. 374–75 *

* Ștefan Zeletin Mihai Sorin Rădulescu
"O carte despre Ștefan Zeletin"
in ''

România Literară ''România Literară'' is a cultural and literary magazine from Romania. In its original edition, it was founded on 1 January 1855 by Vasile Alecsandri and published in Iași until 3 December 1855, when it was suppressed. The new series appeared on ...

'', Nr. 39/2002

Notes

References

* Lucian Nastasă, ''"Suveranii" universităților românești. Mecanisme de selecție și promovare a elitei intelectuale''. Cluj-Napoca, Editura Limes, 2007, * Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române''. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004.

External links

Official site
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