Rapoltu Mare (, ) is a commune in

Hunedoara County Hunedoara County () is a county (''județ'') of Romania, in Transylvania, with its capital city at Deva, Romania, Deva. The county is part of the Danube–Criș–Mureș–Tisa Euroregion. Name In Hungarian language, Hungarian, it is known as , ...

Transylvania Transylvania ( or ; ; or ; Transylvanian Saxon dialect, Transylvanian Saxon: ''Siweberjen'') is a List of historical regions of Central Europe, historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and ...

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

. It is composed of five villages: Bobâlna (''Bábolna''), Boiu (''Boj''), Folt (''Folt''), Rapoltu Mare, and Rapolțel (''Kisrápolt''). The Hungarian noble family ''Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt'' has used the name of this village since the Middle Ages. Its most famous member is the scientist

Albert Szent-Györgyi Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Rapoltu Mare, Nagyrápolt (; September 16, 1893 – October 22, 1986) was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and disc ...

Natives

Atanasie Anghel Atanasie Anghel Popa (died 19 August 1713) was a Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop of Gyulafehérvár (today Alba Iulia, Romania) between 1698 and 1713. He was the successor to Teophilus Seremi in the seat of the Bălgrad Metropolitanate. Through h ...

(died 1713), Romanian Greek-Catholic bishop of Alba Iulia between 1698 and 1713 * József Somkuthy (1883–1961), Hungarian military officer and politician

References

Communes in Hunedoara County Localities in Transylvania {{Hunedoara-geo-stub