Nicolae Bălcescu National College

	Nicolae Bălcescu National College Nicolae Bălcescu National College () is a high school located at 182 Alexandru Ioan Cuza Boulevard, Brăila, Romania. History The school traces its origins to 1863, when it was founded as a ''Realschule'' with two grades. It became a four-year classical gymnasium in 1867, with a fifth grade added for students wishing to pursue a business career. Another change in 1871 turned the institution into a four-year commercial school. This lasted until 1873, when the city gymnasium was inaugurated. The national government took over in 1880; within three years, all grades offered science courses. The 1888 addition of a fifth grade made it into a ''real'' high school, the country's first. In 1895, the school was dedicated to Nicolae Bălcescu.History at the Nicolae Bălcescu National College site In 1900, the school received the gymnasium classes from anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Brăila Brăila (, also , ) is a city in Muntenia, eastern Romania, a port on the Danube and the capital of Brăila County. The Sud-Est (development region), ''Sud-Est'' Regional Development Agency is located in Brăila. According to the 2021 Romanian census there were 154,686 people living within the city of Brăila, making it the List of cities and towns in Romania, 11th-most populous city in Romania and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, 9th-largest of all cities on the river Danube. The current mayor of Brăila is Viorel Marian Dragomir. History Origins Before 14th century, a small village existed in the place of today's Brăila, probably inhabited by fishermen and small merchants.Rădvan, p.248 The village fell to the Mongols during the 1241 Mongol invasion of Europe and it was under direct control of the rulers of Curtea de Argeș, Argeș in mid-14th century. A settlement called ''Drinago'' was found in several 14th century Catalan and Castillian portolan charts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Petre Andrei Petre Andrei (June 29, 1891 – October 4, 1940) was a Romanian sociologist, philosopher, and politician who served as Education Minister in 1938–1940. Biography Origins and work He was born in Brăila, the fourth child of a family of low-ranking civil servants, Costache Andrei and Vasilica, née Conduriotis. He attended Nicolae Bălcescu National College, Nicolae Bălcescu High School from 1902 to 1910. He then moved to Iași, where he enrolled in the literature and philosophy faculty of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, University of Iași, graduating in 1913. While a student, his mentor was Ion Petrovici. Andrei continued his education in Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, where he audited a seminar on logic and history of philosophy conducted by Alois Riehl, and in Leipzig University, Leipzig. Returning home when the war broke out, he volunteered for service, in spite of being exempt due to the fact that his father was deceased. He was assigned to the 38th Infantry Reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ștefan Petică Ștefan Petică (; January 20, 1877 – October 17, 1904) was a Romanian Symbolist poet, prose writer, playwright, journalist, and socialist activist. Born in the countryside of Tecuci, he displayed a voracious appetite for literature and philosophy since his early years. After high school, he made his way to the national capital Bucharest, where university studies soon gave way to low-paid newspaper work. Petică published one volume of poetry before his premature death, and left his mark as one of the first exponents of the domestic Symbolist movement. Biography Origins, education and intellectual influences Born in Bucești, Galați County, his parents were the free peasants (''răzeși'') Ianache and Catinca Petică. He attended primary school in nearby Liești, followed by the D. A. Sturdza gymnasium in Tecuci (1888–1892) and the Nicolae Bălcescu High School in Brăila (1892–1896). Petică obtained his high school degree in Bucharest in 1898. He enrolled at the Unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Perpessicius Perpessicius (; pen name of Dumitru S. Panaitescu, also known as Panait Șt. Dumitru, D. P. Perpessicius and Panaitescu-Perpessicius; October 22, 1891 – March 29, 1971) was a Romanian literary historian and critic, poet, essayist and fiction writer. One of the prominent literary chroniclers of the Romanian interwar period, he stood apart in his generation for having thrown his support behind the modernist and avant-garde currents of Romanian literature. As a theorist, Perpessicius merged the tenets of Symbolism with the pragmatic conservative principles of the 19th century '' Junimea'' society, but was much-criticized over perceptions that, in the name of aesthetic relativism, he tolerated literary failure. Also known as an anthologist, biographer, museologist, folklorist and book publisher, he was, together with George Călinescu, one of his generation's best-known researchers to have focused on the work of ''Junimist'' author and since-acknowledged national poet Mihai Eminescu. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cezar Papacostea Cezar Papacostea (1886–July 6, 1936) was an ethnic Aromanian classicist and translator living in Romania. He was born in Malovišta (''Mulovishti''), a village in the Ottoman Empire's Manastir Vilayet that today forms part of North Macedonia's Bitola Municipality. His parents were Teofana (''née'' Tonu) and Gușu Papacostea-Goga, both Aromanians and schoolteachers. The family was deeply cultured, and his several brothers pursued distinguished careers: Alexandru became a professor of political economy at Cernăuți University, Petre was a jurist who held important administrative offices and Victor became a historian and professor of Balkan studies at the University of Bucharest. After emigrating to the Kingdom of Romania as a child, Papacostea attended primary and high school in Brăila from 1892 to 1906. From that point until 1910, he studied at the literature and philosophy faculty in Bucharest; Iuliu Valaori was one of his professors. After graduation, he became a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Gheorghe Munteanu-Murgoci Gheorghe Munteanu Murgoci (July 20, 1872 – March 5, 1925) was a Romanian geologist, founder of the South-Eastern European Studies Institute in Bucharest. In 1923, he was elected a corresponding list of members of the Romanian Academy, member of the Romanian Academy. Munteanu Murgoci was a native of Măcin, Tulcea County. He studied at the Saint Sava National College, Saint Sava High School and then at the University of Bucharest. As part of a group of professors, physicians, soldiers, and others, he helped bring Scouting to Romania. He married the British zoologist and folklorist Agnes Murgoci in 1904, together they had two children. A high school in Brăila is named "Colegiul Național Gheorghe Munteanu Murgoci" in his honor. Bibliography * Ioana Frunte-Lată, ''Oameni de știință tulceni – Mic dicționar biobibliografic'', Tulcea, 2015, p 94–101 Notes 1872 births 1925 deaths People from Măcin Corresponding members of the Romanian Academy 20th-century Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Ștefan Minovici Ștefan Minovici (July 18, 1867 – December 29, 1935) was a Romanian chemist. The brother of Mina Minovici and Nicolae Minovici, he became a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy in 1925. Education Minovici was born in Râmnicu Sărat into a family of Aromanian origin. After studying at the gymnasium in Brăila from 1875 to 1882, he moved to Bucharest, where he completed his high school studies at Saint Sava National College in 1887. He then enrolled in the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Bucharest, majoring in physics and chemistry, and received a B.S. in 1893. The year after he went to study at Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin under Emil Fischer, graduating in 1897. Career In 1899 Minovici joined the faculty at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest. In 1912 he was promoted to full professor at the University of Bucharest, while in 1925 he became director of the Institute of Organic Chemistry at the university. At that time he founded t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mina Minovici Mina Minovici (; April 30, 1858 – April 25, 1933) was a Romanian forensic scientist, known for his extensive research regarding cadaverous alkaloids, putrefaction, simulated mind diseases, and criminal anthropology. Studies He was born in Brăila into a family of Aromanians, Aromanian origin, older brother of Ștefan Minovici and Nicolae Minovici. After graduating from the Superior School of Pharmacy he worked as pharmacist for the Eforie Civilian Hospitals. He then attended the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Bucharest, graduating in 1885. Right after that he started his forensic training at the University of Paris with Professor Paul Brouardel, and soon after he became his assistant and advisee. Minovici defended his Ph.D. thesis, titled ''Etude médico-légale sur la mort subite à la suite de coups sur l'abdomen et le larynx'', on June 7, 1888. Career In 1889 Minovici was appointed assistant in the Chemistry Department at University of Medicine and Pha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Leon Feraru Leon Feraru (born Otto Engelberg,Aurel Sasu (ed.), ''Dicționarul biografic al literaturii române'', Vol. I, p. 580. Pitești: Editura Paralela 45, 2004. Ghena Pricop, "Personalități ale Comunității Evreiești din Brăila", in Hristian ''et al.'', p. 238 also credited as L. Schmidt; 1887 – 1961 or 1962) was a Romanian and American poet, literary historian and translator. Cultivating proletarian literature while frequenting the Symbolist movement, he displayed both his origins in the Romanian Jewish underclass and his appreciation for the wider Romanian culture. He popularized the latter with his work in America, having left in 1913 to escape antisemitic pressures. A translator, publicist, and public lecturer, he was involved with the Romanian press of New York City, and eventually as a Romance studies academic at Columbia and Long Island. Feraru's poetry, collected in two volumes, mixes Romanian patriotism, traditionalist references, and modern industrial aesthetics. Bio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Mihu Dragomir Mihu Dragomir (pen name of Mihail Constantin Dragomirescu; April 24, 1919 – April 9, 1964) was a Romanian poet, prose writer and translator. A native of Brăila on the Bărăgan Plain, he was heavily influenced by the worldview of an older novelist, Panait Istrati, as well as by the poetic works of Mihai Eminescu and Edgar Allan Poe. He debuted in his early teens, and, before turning 19, had self-published his first volume of verse, also putting out the literary magazine ''Flamura''. The late 1930s and early '40s saw his sympathy for, and finally engagement with, Romanian fascism—he joined the literary circle ''Adonis'', founded by former members of the Crusade of Romanianism, and, during the "National Legionary State" of 1940, openly adhered to the Iron Guard. Rebelliousness interfered with Dragomir's educational path, but he recovered enough to train as a sapper, then as a junior officer, in the Romanian Land Forces. He fought in their ranks for the remainder of World War II, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Mihail Crama Mihail Crama (born Eugen Enăchescu Pasad; January 1, 1923 – April 17, 1994) was a Romanian poet and prose writer. Born in Cetatea Albă, his parents were Mihail Enăchescu, a military physician, and his wife Maria (''née'' Pasad), a nurse. He attended the military high school in Iași and Nicolae Bălcescu High School in Brăila, graduating in 1941. His first poems and articles appeared in 1939 in the local newspapers ''Ancheta'', ''Cuvântul'', ''Facla'' and ''Expresul''. Initially enrolling in a school for Gendarmerie officers, he abandoned this in favor of the University of Bucharest's law faculty, from which he obtained a degree in 1945. Subsequently, he worked as a legal adviser at the Justice Ministry and as head of the civil section within the Supreme Tribunal. Crama's contributions appeared in ''Vremea'', ''Claviaturi'', ''Adonis'', ''Prepoem'', ''Revista Fundațiilor Regale'' and ''Caiet de poezie''. He read poetry in the ''Sburătorul'' circle and joined the group o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Panait Cerna Panait Cerna (; Bulgarian: Панайот Черна, ''Panayot Cherna'', born Panayot Stanchov or Panait Staciov; August 26 or September 25, 1881 – March 26, 1913) was a Romanian poet, philosopher, literary critic and translator. A native speaker of Bulgarian, Cerna nonetheless wrote in Romanian, and developed a traditionalist style which was connected with classicism and neoclassicism. Praised by the conservative literary society ''Junimea'', he was promoted by its leader Titu Maiorescu, as well as by Maiorescu's disciples Mihail Dragomirescu and Simion Mehedinţi. Cerna became the group's main representative during its decline, contributing to both major Junimist magazines, '' Convorbiri Literare'' and '' Convorbiri Critice''. He also contributed pieces to the traditionalist magazine ''Sămănătorul'', and was briefly affiliated with other literary journals. A graduate of the University of Bucharest, Cerna completed his studies in the German Empire. There, he attended t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]