Andrei Scobioală (1884–1971) was a

Bessarabia Bessarabia () is a historical region in Eastern Europe, bounded by the Dniester river on the east and the Prut river on the west. About two thirds of Bessarabia lies within modern-day Moldova, with the Budjak region covering the southern coa ...

n politician, a professor of mathematics and a

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in the Country Council between 1917 and 1919 and in the

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between 1928 and 1930.Alexandru Chiriac, ''Mic dicționar al membrilor Sfatului Țării din Chișinău, (21 noiembrie 1917 — 27 noiembrie 1918)'', în „Patrimoniu. Revistă de cultură istorică”, Chișinău, nr.4/1991, pp. 94-95

Biography

He studied at the Normal School in Bairancea and the

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Physics Faculty, taking his degree in 1909. It was mobilized for weapons during the

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, more precisely in 1917, in a Russian unit on the Romanian front. Besides working on the front, he sent a letter to Gubernial

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at the beginning of the school year 1917–1918 in which he proposed to bring Transylvanian and Bucovina teachers from the prisoners and the refugees of war because he was worried about the situation of the native language education in

, given the small number of Bessarabian teachers. On 18 February 1918 he participated in the opening of the Popular University of

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, where he gave a speech. Besides the political activity carried out in some Bessarabian and Romanian bodies and institutions, during the interwar period he was also a mathematics professor at the Normal School and the ''Military High School'' in Chișinău, as well as at the ''Lazăr High School'' in

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(in 1940). In 1941 he returned to

, where he worked until 1944 as a teacher at the Normal School, after which he moved definitively to Bucharest. He died in 1971 because of a heart attack. He was buried at the Cărămidari cemetery in

(South Square).Al. Chiriac, ''op. cit.'', p. 95

Gallery

File:Stamp of Moldova 227.gif, Moldovan stamp, 1998

Bibliography

* Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, ''Sfatul Țării: itinerar'', Civitas, Chişinău, 1998, *Mihai Taşcă, ''Sfatul Țării şi actualele autorităţi locale'', "

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", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16)

External links

Arhiva pentru Sfatul TariiDeputaţii Sfatului Ţării şi Lavrenti Beria

References

1884 births 1971 deaths Moldovan MPs 1917–1918 People from Ungheni District {{Romania-politician-stub